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But it soon became clear that the search for eighteenth-century furniture ( which Mrs. Kennedy feels is the proper period for the White House ) must be pursued in places other than government storage rooms.

The First Lady appointed a Fine Arts Advisory Committee for the White House, to locate authentic pieces as well as to arrange ways to acquire them.

Her effort to put the home of living Presidents on the same basis as Mount Vernon and Monticello recognizes no party lines.

By rough estimate her Committee, headed by Henry Francis Du Pont, contains three times as many Republicans as Democrats.