The Whitehouse: The history you can see on the tour

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And really every president has touched it somehow, except.

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Well, George Washington, he touched,

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but he picked the place.

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Oh, he picked the place?

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Yeah, he picked the location in 1791, George Washington picked the location

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of where it was going to be built.

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Oh, I

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actually didn't realize that.

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Cause I, he was, I think one of the facts we saw was he was the, like the

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only president who hadn't lived there.

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He's only

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president who's never lived there.

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But he knew where it was gonna be.

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Oh, okay.

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So it was him, it was like, I want 1600, not 1601.

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Yeah.

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And now I don't want the 15 hundreds.

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Yeah.

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I don't want 1700 Ohio place.

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I want 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Penn Avenue.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Welcome to Talk With History.

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I am your host Scott, here with my wife and historian Jen.

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Hello.

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On this podcast, we give you insights to our history inspired world travels

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YouTube channel journey, and examine history through deeper conversations

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with the curious, the explorers, and the history lovers out there.

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Now, Jen, I'm just gonna cut right to the chase because the title of

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this episode will give it away.

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So let's talk about the White House and you had tried to get a tour of the White

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House and it was very difficult and we finally had to like phone a friend.

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Yeah.

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It's, it is very difficult to get a tour, they say it's

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supposed to be relatively easy.

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You email your congressman and it hasn't been, we've tried this

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a couple times and it, yeah.

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And so finally I have a friend who is in DC right now going to school.

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Yep.

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And he had a connection.

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Yeah.

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And so he was able to get us a tour, all five of us.

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So us And it wasn't some,

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Any sort of inside tour.

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No.

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It's the tour that everybody, he's basically able to just get us on the

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list so that everybody else does.

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Yeah.

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So we were very happy to do that.

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So let's talk a little bit about the White House and then we'll go into what

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we saw as we got through walkthrough, the Eastern wing of the White House.

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Sure.

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So the White House is.

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The home of the President of the United States of America.

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That's right.

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It is the oldest public building in the district of a Columbia,

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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Yep.

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They have to pick a cool state.

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But what it's come to symbolize and it, it's been definitely changed throughout

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the years, but what has come to symbolize for our country is very significant.

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And really every president in America has had, has touched it somehow, except.

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Well, George Washington, he touched,

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but he picked the place.

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Oh, he picked the place?

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Yeah, he picked the location in 1791, George Washington picked the location

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of where it was going to be built.

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So he, and he's there when they put the cornerstone there.

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So he picks the site 1791.

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And we talked about this.

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George Washington is very, Influential in the land around the DC area.

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Sure, of course.

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He's this is a good location right here.

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It's a Virginian is a Virginian.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And so the cornerstone is laid by James Hoban.

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He's the the architect.

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And it takes eight years to construct.

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And of course people have discussed this before, enslaved labor is

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used to construct the White House.

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Jeff John Adams and Abigail Adams will be the first president and first

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Lady to move into the White House.

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That was 1800.

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Eight years after.

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So am Yeah.

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1800.

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Exactly.

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Okay.

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November 1st, I think 1800.

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And and it's seen changes throughout that time.

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So you're gonna get the war of 1812.

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It's burned in 1814.

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So the breaded, the only time that the city has been taken over by an

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enemy is when the British stormed DC and actually burned the White House.

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And we all know the famous story of Dolly Madison and the Gilbert.

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Stewart Painting of George Washington, which was actually there when we toured.

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Yeah.

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So for those of us who don't remember that stuff now I do, because

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you've told me the story multiple times.

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But she actually was like saving a lot of the then historical stuff.

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Yes.

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Trying out of the White House as it's burning down around them.

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They, the British are advancing and they know they're getting, they're

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making their way to DC and they don't know if they're gonna be able to stop

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them, which, spoiler, they didn't.

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So it was in advance.

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Yeah.

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So she and her enslaved.

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Cuz I wanna make this very clear.

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It wasn't Dolly Madison who's pulling the painting off the wall.

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It was one of her enslaved men who actually pulled the painting off.

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It's a huge painting.

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It's a huge painting and I think they.

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Took it outta the frame and they rolled it up and he took it, threw it on the

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wagon and a bunch of other things.

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China, a bunch of other stuff that was in the house, but that

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was one of the things they saved.

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Dolly Madison's credited with it because she probably gave the order.

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Order should do it, but it wasn't her herself who did it.

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But they saved all those things and the.

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White House is rebuilt.

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They bring in the same architect and they rebuilt it.

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1817.

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It is ready to be moved back into again.

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And Monroe will be the president who moves back into the White

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House after it's burned.

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Yeah.

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And then you get in 1901, you get a name change.

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That's right.

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This was interesting.

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Yeah.

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So Teddy Roosevelt becomes president and starts, people have always joked

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and called it the White House and, but this time they actually are paint.

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They painted white.

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The whole place takes 500 gallons of paint and he starts to call it the White House.

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Before that it's called the Executive Mansion.

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President's House.

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Yeah.

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President's

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Palace.

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Yeah.

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I, and that's funny.

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That's one of those things that I just never thought about.

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Yes.

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And then you mentioned it like, oh yeah, it was Teddy Roosevelt who

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first started calling the White House.

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I was like, Huh?

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Yes.

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I never

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thought of that.

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And it's put it on, it's put on the stationary.

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Yeah.

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So it's made like official.

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Oh, okay.

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That's cool.

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And then in 1909 you get tapped, making the Oval Office.

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So something that we, what did the, where'd the president sit before?

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Probably had a square office.

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Yeah.

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Somewhere in the corner.

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With a good view, you

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know?

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I know, right?

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So the Oval Office is added by Taft, which is interesting since Taft is

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known for being the bigger president.

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That's right.

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With the bathtub.

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Is he the one that got stuck in the bathtub?

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That's the

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story.

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Anyways, so the Oval Office kind of fits Truman renovated it in 1952.

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He moved back in.

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But just, people always wanna hear some statistics.

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It has 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms.

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It's six different levels.

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412 doors, 147 windows.

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28 fireplaces, eight staircases and three elevators.

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That's

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crazy.

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Cuz and that's a good segue for kind of us moving into, our tour of it

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starting on the, in the East Wing.

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When we were walking through the East Wing, like it didn't feel.

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As big as that, but I'm sure there's when it's multiple

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wings it's easy to lose sight of

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that.

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Yes.

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We're only east wing, right?

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There's a huge west wing where all those people work.

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Yeah, basically.

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And then there's a whole I.

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Private residence.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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And so the private residence is I think three levels alone.

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Yeah.

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So you can imagine it's just, it's huge.

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And then there's all, this places they don't want you to know about.

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Oh sure.

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Absolutely.

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It's stuff that,

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so who knows if that's actually even true.

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That's a great point.

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That's probably maybe it's not 132, maybe it's 134.

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Like they're actually gonna tell you I'm not gonna tell you.

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But it was so great to go there.

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You go through three levels of security.

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We had to have the passports for the kids, dogs

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sniffing around.

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Yeah.

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And all that stuff.

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But it was very neat.

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There's a couple rooms you're only allowed to look in one of them's like

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the China room where they have examples.

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I was

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a little disappointed by that.

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Yeah.

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I really wanted to be able to go into the rooms.

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Yeah.

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Even me not being the history fan and you being the one that kind of really

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pressed to get this set up, like I, I wanted to be able to walk into

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the rooms, and I understand, right?

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You get, thousands or millions of people that are visiting the

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White House every single year.

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I do understand that.

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So you can lean in, you can look into some of, the China rooms and one of the library

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s the ramil room.

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So the ramil room is that's like a silver from the Gilded Age.

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What bothered me about not being able to look in the Ramiro room and the China

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room is those are where the, a lot of the paintings that the first ladies are.

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So that's the famous painting of Jacqueline Kennedy.

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Yeah.

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And you could see them.

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Across the hall, across the wall, across the room.

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They're decent sized rooms, but Yeah, but you couldn't, you could look in,

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you could peer in, but you couldn't go in just, it was just three rooms.

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It was the voir room, the China room.

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Oh, I think the library, like you said.

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And the diplomatic reception room.

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Yep.

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Those are the three.

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And they then they had A gift shop, it was like a Yelp

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shop.

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Like in the middle of one of the hallways.

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In the middle of the hallway, which, of

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<time>00:08:26</time>
course it was very interesting.

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<time>00:08:27</time>
Smart moves.

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<time>00:08:28</time>
It was like, okay, people are gonna spend money.

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<time>00:08:30</time>
And then we went upstairs and that's when you got to go into all the rooms.

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<time>00:08:34</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:08:35</time>
And it was basically just Five rooms.

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<time>00:08:37</time>
You got the state dining room, the red room, the blue room, the

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<time>00:08:40</time>
green room, and the east room.

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<time>00:08:41</time>
But those are big rooms and not only are there big rooms, those

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<time>00:08:44</time>
are rooms that you recognize.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:47</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:08:47</time>
Because those are rooms that are used when the president goes live or he's

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<time>00:08:52</time>
doing some event at the White House.

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<time>00:08:54</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:08:54</time>
That was one of the cool things.

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<time>00:08:56</time>
And you you don't see it until a little bit later in the tour.

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<time>00:08:58</time>
But it's actually like the spot where the.

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<time>00:09:00</time>
President's like walking up to the dais.

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<time>00:09:02</time>
And he's doing like a big announcement to the public.

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<time>00:09:03</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:09:04</time>
Not the press room, but actually walking up to do some sort of,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:06</time>
national announcement.

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<time>00:09:07</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:09:08</time>
He does it like standing outside of the blue rooms and the green rooms.

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<time>00:09:12</time>
Like those are the doors behind him.

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<time>00:09:13</time>
Like he's down that long hallway with those rooms off to the side of him,

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<time>00:09:16</time>
like they changed that podium around.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
But if he's doing it an event where he's actually like giving

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<time>00:09:22</time>
someone the presidential award or.

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<time>00:09:25</time>
A medal of honor.

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<time>00:09:26</time>
He's usually doing it in the east room.

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<time>00:09:28</time>
And that room is set up with a bunch of chairs and the podium.

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<time>00:09:32</time>
And that's the room that has the Gilbert Stewart painting.

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<time>00:09:35</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:09:36</time>
And it's roped off.

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<time>00:09:37</time>
They don't want you by the chairs and things like that, but you can tell it's

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<time>00:09:40</time>
a big room, ready to receive people.

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<time>00:09:42</time>
And then on the other side of that room, between the green room, the blue room,

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<time>00:09:46</time>
and the red room is the state dining room.

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<time>00:09:49</time>
And in that room is the painting of.

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<time>00:09:51</time>
Abraham

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<time>00:09:52</time>
Lincoln.

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<time>00:09:52</time>
That's the one that had the big chandeliers and

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<time>00:09:54</time>
everything.

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<time>00:09:54</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:09:55</time>
It had Lincoln.

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<time>00:09:56</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:09:56</time>
With this hand, like that's a famous Lincoln painting.

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<time>00:09:58</time>
Very famous picture.

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<time>00:09:59</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:09:59</time>
But that was neat.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
And so there's three rooms in between the Red Room used for receptions.

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<time>00:10:05</time>
It's painted red, so it's very easy.

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<time>00:10:07</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:10:07</time>
It's a, been a favorite of the first ladies.

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<time>00:10:10</time>
John Adams used it as a breakfast room.

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<time>00:10:12</time>
Rutherford b Hayes took the oath of office there.

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<time>00:10:15</time>
It's decorated as a, a.

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<time>00:10:18</time>
American Empire Parlor of the 18 1810s to 1830.

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<time>00:10:23</time>
Was

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<time>00:10:23</time>
that the room that had that really cool kind of nature

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:26</time>
painting That was really like a.

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<time>00:10:29</time>
Kind of conglomeration of multiple parts of America.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:32</time>
I think that's the green room.

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<time>00:10:33</time>
Was that the green room?

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<time>00:10:34</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:10:34</time>
Because there was one, it was massive painting.

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<time>00:10:36</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:10:37</time>
And it, you almost thought that is that Yosemite?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:40</time>
Is that the Rockies?

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<time>00:10:41</time>
And he said they made it up and he, that he had the artists actually made

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<time>00:10:44</time>
it up and he actually took a couple different places and put them together.

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<time>00:10:47</time>
But it was just this beautiful, yeah,

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<time>00:10:50</time>
it was painting.

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<time>00:10:51</time>
It was beautiful.

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<time>00:10:51</time>
Because I, cause I even said, so they usually have a, an an aid.

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<time>00:10:55</time>
Call 'em a page or an aide in each room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:58</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:58</time>
And you can ask 'em questions.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
And they're watching you too, to not touch anything because they have you

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<time>00:11:03</time>
kind of rope through these little walkways on either side of the room.

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<time>00:11:06</time>
So you kinda have to pick a side.

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<time>00:11:08</time>
That's right.

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<time>00:11:08</time>
And you walk down the side cuz you were on the opposite side of the

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<time>00:11:11</time>
side of me.

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<time>00:11:12</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:11:12</time>
I was herding the kids.

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<time>00:11:13</time>
And you were like taking your time.

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<time>00:11:15</time>
So between the red room and the green room is the blue room.

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<time>00:11:19</time>
And the blue room was often used by president to receive guests.

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<time>00:11:22</time>
And I You've seen president Obama.

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<time>00:11:23</time>
I've seen a lot of pictures of Obama in the Blue Room, I

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<time>00:11:25</time>
think when he's pretending to be attacked by the Spider-Man kid.

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<time>00:11:29</time>
He's in

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<time>00:11:29</time>
the blue room.

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<time>00:11:30</time>
Oh, I don't re I don't, I'll have to look that one up.

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<time>00:11:33</time>
If I do a video version of this podcast, I'll

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<time>00:11:34</time>
make sure I put that up.

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<time>00:11:35</time>
It's furnished to represent the period of James Monroe.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:38</time>
Who purchased, he purchased the pieces in that room in 18, 14 and seven of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:43</time>
the French chairs, and one of the sofas was bought by Monroe and the portraits

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
there of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and the Hannibal clock

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<time>00:11:52</time>
on the mantel was inquired in 1817.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:55</time>
Yeah,

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<time>00:11:55</time>
It was one of those things that like.

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<time>00:11:58</time>
You, we at, even for me, I almost felt rushed.

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<time>00:12:01</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:12:02</time>
Because there was so much, it was so saturated with just all this history.

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<time>00:12:08</time>
I was, it was beautiful.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:08</time>
And you're beautiful.

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<time>00:12:09</time>
You could stand there in one room for 30 minutes by itself.

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<time>00:12:13</time>
All right?

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<time>00:12:13</time>
And they were moving people along at a pretty steady pace.

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<time>00:12:16</time>
They

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:17</time>
do.

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<time>00:12:17</time>
They don't rush you.

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<time>00:12:18</time>
And they're, you are allowed to take pictures.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
We took pictures in the east route and In the state dining

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<time>00:12:23</time>
room and in the East Room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:25</time>
But the Blue room, because it's centered between the Red Room and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
the green room is where they put the White House, Christmas tree.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:31</time>
Oh, that's where it goes?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
Yeah, it goes in the blue room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:33</time>
Oh, okay.

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<time>00:12:34</time>
So that's cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:12:35</time>
And then the green room and this one served as Thomas Jefferson's dining room.

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<time>00:12:39</time>
It reminded me of that cuz I'm on cello.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
So it's very interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:44</time>
It's now furnished as a parlor.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:45</time>
It's used for receptions.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:47</time>
The walls are covered with a watered green silk.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
And and that's in 1818.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:53</time>
The state dining room was moved here.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
Oh wait the, I'm sorry.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:56</time>
The mantle was purchased in 1818.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:58</time>
The state dining room was moved here in 1902 before they built

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
the other state dining room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:02</time>
So you can see it's a smaller room to be a dining room, but those

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
are the rooms you basically get to really walk through and see.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:10</time>
Now what's interesting is, like I said, you have this big east room, you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:13</time>
have this big dining room in between.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:15</time>
Are these three colored rooms?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:17</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:17</time>
Blue room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
Oh, Greg Red Room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
Blue room, green room, then you have a hallway that kind

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
of connects those two rooms.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:24</time>
And in that hallway was one of the most famous paintings of a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
president than I had ever seen.

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<time>00:13:37</time>
Let me just paint the picture, for, and there's, that's no pun

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
intended here, but we're walking through these things, we're all roped

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
off and this, that and the other.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:44</time>
We're, you can feel we're starting to get closer to the end.

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<time>00:13:46</time>
People are starting trying to take pictures over by where the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
presidential podium is the seal.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:50</time>
The seal is, and things like that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:52</time>
And we walk into this hallway and.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
And literally I could have walked up and touched it if I had wanted to,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:58</time>
was the painting of JFK where he has his arms crossed and he's looking

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:01</time>
down, he looks like he's thinking it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
It's probably the, to me, one of the most famous presidential

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:07</time>
paintings that, that I can think of.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:08</time>
Maybe cuz it's just so much more distinct.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:10</time>
Sure.

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<time>00:14:10</time>
I just, I didn't know what to say.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:11</time>
I was like, Jen, I could walk up and touch, people were taking

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:15</time>
selfies right in front of it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:16</time>
I did taking pictures.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:17</time>
And this, I was so surprised.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
And then there was other pictures that were just as close, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:22</time>
Yes.

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<time>00:14:22</time>
Ronald Reagan and just a whole bunch of 'em sitting right there.

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<time>00:14:26</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:26</time>
They had Obama and I think.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:32</time>
I think just Obama was on the outside before you left the White House, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:35</time>
And then, yeah, J John F.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
Kennedy was right there.

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<time>00:14:38</time>
I just couldn't believe it too, because of, to me, one of the most famous,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:41</time>
significant presidential paintings.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:43</time>
That is one I really distinctly remember, so I could see them protecting

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
the Stewart Gilbert, Washington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:51</time>
The Lincoln portrait is very famous as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:53</time>
That's also protected across the room in the dining room.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:57</time>
But the John of Kennedy to be there by itself.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:00</time>
Even Jacqueline Kennedy's you couldn't even get to cuz it's across the room

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
downstairs.

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<time>00:15:04</time>
I was, I, it almost made me think there's, maybe this is just a rep.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:06</time>
I know.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
I thought that too.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
I thought the same thing.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
I was like, there's no way that this, like my kids could have

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
walked up to and touched him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
Yes, it was.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
Absolutely incredible.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:15</time>
To me, one of my favorite things, and I mentioned to this to you before we went

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
live here was really just the paintings.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:21</time>
I just enjoyed walking around seeing the paintings because I didn't dive deep into

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
any of the history of, ask the pages too many questions or anything like that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:28</time>
I was watching the kids, but just seeing the paintings and being that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:31</time>
close to them, and maybe that's because for me, The one, the few things that,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:37</time>
that I did grasp onto as I'm learning history growing up was the pictures.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:40</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
I'm, but you see all these pictures in your history books?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:44</time>
Cuz every president will have a presidential portrait.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
Yep.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
Done.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:47</time>
It's very significant.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:48</time>
And they try to represent their time in office.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:51</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:51</time>
So sim as the first lady and so those are hung as decoration around the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:56</time>
And I think, to a degree, you're allowed to choose when you become president.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
Where they get to hang.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:03</time>
And especially in the Oval Office, I've seen, I've heard of presidents changing

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:08</time>
the portraits in the Oval Office.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
Oh sure.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
I'm sure we do it what presidents every time they want represented in there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
What's interesting about the dining room, it can seat 130 guests.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:17</time>
And the painted in English oak panels dates back to the renovation in 1902 and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:23</time>
carved into the fireplace mantle is a quotation from a letter by John Adams.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:28</time>
I pray he heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:34</time>
hear after inhabit it may none, but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
That's cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
Isn't that cool?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
That's really neat.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:48</time>
So the kitchen can prepare a dinner for 140, which is, for me, I think

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
being the presidential family is cool, but having your own cook that can

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
make these state dinners at all times.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
Sure.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:02</time>
That's probably like the coolest thing to me, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:05</time>
You can have your food sent up to you or anything you want made at any

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:08</time>
time, but so I think that's what's so significant between the East Wing and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
the West Wing is the East Wing is a very ceremonial side of the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
It's a very diplomatic side.

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This is what you're gonna be

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receiving.

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And that was one of the things with the tours too, is they

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<time>00:17:23</time>
can shut it down any time.

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That's what they said.

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<time>00:17:24</time>
They can shut it down at the drop of a hat.

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<time>00:17:26</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:17:26</time>
They go, we got something going on, and they're just gonna let the last people

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<time>00:17:29</time>
finish their tour and be like, Sorry guys.

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<time>00:17:30</time>
You're gonna have to try next time.

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<time>00:17:31</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:17:31</time>
You could have your tickets booked months in advance and you could

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<time>00:17:35</time>
have it canceled at the last second.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:36</time>
And they only run tours a couple days a week during certain hours anyway.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
Yep.

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<time>00:17:41</time>
To work around that schedule.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
But one of the pages did say that, that they, anytime they can close it

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
and use it for an ambassador, anybody

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<time>00:17:48</time>
who has Yeah.

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<time>00:17:49</time>
And then as we were Towards the end of the tour, we saw Obama's portrait,

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<time>00:17:52</time>
which was towards the end we got to walk out and we walk out, like

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<time>00:17:56</time>
right front, the front door, every single picture or movie or news reel

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<time>00:18:01</time>
you've ever seen of them right there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:02</time>
It was stat was

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:04</time>
so cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:04</time>
So we took a lot of pictures of our family yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
Right out

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<time>00:18:07</time>
front.

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<time>00:18:07</time>
So we if you picture it in your head, if you were walking out of the White

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<time>00:18:10</time>
House and then we went off to the right.

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<time>00:18:12</time>
To

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<time>00:18:12</time>
the right.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:12</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:13</time>
But it was then they let you take tons of pictures right there and they let you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:16</time>
take selfies with your family and things.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:18</time>
But that was super cool to walk right off front of the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
And again, and then you walk off to the right.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:25</time>
But to be standing there and to see just like the big.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
Chandelier that's hung there with the chain because that's

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<time>00:18:33</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:18:33</time>
That, that drive through.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:34</time>
Yeah, pass that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
That passes there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
It was really neat.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:37</time>
So to be there and to share it with the kids Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
For me was just a, a bucket list historian dream

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<time>00:18:43</time>
come true.

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<time>00:18:44</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:18:44</time>
And so for anybody listening, if you want ever wanna try to get tickets

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:48</time>
to do tours, the way to do that.

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<time>00:18:51</time>
Is to your state congressman your state senator will have a website.

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<time>00:18:55</time>
And I think that's typically the way for the vast majority

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<time>00:18:58</time>
of folks to try and get tickets.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:00</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
That's the best way to get tickets.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:03</time>
And I guess if you, there's usually a person who works for your congressman

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
or senator who their job is to do the tours of the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:10</time>
Okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:11</time>
And I talked to one to get the tour of the Capitol and he had said the tour

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:16</time>
of the White House are harder to get.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:18</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:18</time>
But we got lucky this time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:20</time>
Yeah.

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<time>00:19:20</time>
So if you're curious, if you're listening and you're doing

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:22</time>
this in advance or you want to.

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<time>00:19:24</time>
Go to your state senators, congressmens, website, see if you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:28</time>
can find a place to sign up on there.

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<time>00:19:30</time>
E exploring the rich history of the White House in person was the epitome

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<time>00:19:35</time>
of what we do on Walk With History from its construction to its role as the

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<time>00:19:41</time>
residents and workplace of US Presidents.

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<time>00:19:43</time>
It stands as a symbol of American democracy.

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<time>00:19:47</time>
The White House has witnessed pivotal moments and offers a fascinating tour

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<time>00:19:51</time>
of the East Wing where you can immerse yourself in its remarkable rooms and

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<time>00:19:55</time>
take a stroll next to world famous portraits of our past president.

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<time>00:19:59</time>
And while we didn't get to peek inside the iconic Oval Office, being

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<time>00:20:03</time>
a stones throw from it and walking in the footsteps of our nation's

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<time>00:20:06</time>
leader was an absolute thrill.

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<time>00:20:09</time>
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<time>00:20:11</time>
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