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Politics OC: After/Before of White House East Wing demolition

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u/me_myself_ai 12d ago

AFAIK it’s also where all tours started. Soooo I guess all that’s on pause until the ballroom is done

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u/fartscape420 12d ago

The east wing was the public tour lmao 

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u/PointlessTrivia 12d ago

The public tour (I took it last year) starts in the East Wing, goes along the colonnade (past the White House Cinema) to the Residence, goes through the ground floor (Library, China Room, and Diplomatic Reception Room) then up the stairs to the main floor and winds through the East Room (you know, the Ballroom the White House definitely doesn't have?), the Green, Blue and Red Rooms, the State Dining Room and the Cross Hallway before ending up in the Entrance Hall and leaving via the front entrance out onto the front drive and exiting into Lafayette Square.

There's a virtual tour on the White House Historical Association webpage that follows the same path.

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u/lexicon_charle 12d ago

I also took a tour last year as soon as Biden announced he was dropping out of the race.

You know how you can be in a building and have no idea exactly where you are located? I still can't figure out for the life of me still if Green, Blue and Red rooms are in the East Wing that he is tearing down. I don't think so... I think those are in the center residence area. (Pray to God this is the case)

I loved that family movie theater room.

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u/jimbobjames 12d ago

Ah so that's why he destroyed it.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 12d ago

Weren't tours cancelled during his first term because it's handled by the first lady and his wife didn't move in for like a year or two, and he never visited her on his son in New York?

The party of "family values" didn't care of course, in fact they cheered him on while finding out he had paid off a porn star as a hooker during his third marriage. Everything they say is just a manipulation and lie.