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I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.
All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.
He showed them what to do, and taught them how to keep the maids around the White House in a state of terror.
They seemed to be at the White House half the time.
The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.
Taking a personal interest, she had the doctor assigned to the White House, Dr. James Coupal, look Emmett over.
On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.
The Coolidges did not always live at the White House during the Presidency.
In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.
Nor does Sen. Jackson discuss the delicate situation created by the presence in the White House of a corps of presidential assistants engaged in the study of foreign policy.
Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.
The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.
His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.
-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.
`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!
( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.
He provoked outraged editorials when, after a post-Inaugural inspection of the White House with Mrs. Kennedy, he remarked to reporters, `` We just cased the joint to see what was there ''.
Already the President and the First Lady have deputized him to advise on matters ranging from the furnishing of the White House to the renovation of Lafayette Square.

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On May 19, 1993, Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office, causing a controversy even though the Travel Office staff served at the pleasure of the President, who could dismiss them without cause.
" The revitalized trio starred in several feature-length movies: Have Rocket, Will Travel, Snow White and the Three Stooges, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, The Three Stooges in Orbit, The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, and The Outlaws Is Coming.
His partner, Martens, reported that he had heard rumors that the White House Travel Office was corrupt and disloyal to the Clintons.
This view of the Travel Office was compounded by a series of leaks at the White House that were unfavorable to the Clintons.
Egwene al ' Vere, Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, finally manipulates her unruly followers into giving her more control, and they prepare to Travel to Tar Valon to lay siege to the White Tower.
Republicans made other charges, including that the White House was trying to dig up damaging information about Republicans in general and that the file transfer was motivated by a desire to slander Dale and other White House Travel Office officials and thereby justify their dismissal.
The White Mountains Region is a tourism region designated by the New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism.
* White Mountains region at NH Division of Travel and Tourism Development
The team embarked on a new series of theatrical Three Stooges films, including 1959's Have Rocket, Will Travel ( DeRita's on-screen debut with the Stooges ) and Snow White and the Three Stooges.
It began in May 1993, when seven employees of the White House Travel Office were fired.
The White House claimed the firings were done because financial improprieties in the Travel Office operation had been revealed by a brief FBI investigation.
The White House Travel Office was responsible for getting the White House press corps into place, including landing before Air Force One in order to get photo opportunities such as this one.

White and Office
Craig Livingstone, head of the White House Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background report files without asking permission of the subject individuals ; many of these were employees of former Republican administrations.
In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.
He was assigned duty as the deputy director of the White House Military Office in September 1987.
The Office of the First Lady of the United States is accountable to the First Lady for her to carry out her duties as hostess of the White House, and is also in charge of all social and ceremonial events of the White House.
The Office of the First Lady is an entity of the White House Office, a branch of the Executive Office of the President.
* Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.
She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in December 1995.
In March 2002, Lewinsky, no longer bound by the terms of her agreement with the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, appeared in the HBO special, " Monica in Black and White ", part of the America Undercover series.
On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Derek Mitchell to the U. S. Senate for confirmation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Burma.
In 1981, Nancy directed a major renovation of several White House rooms, including all of the second and third floors and rooms adjacent to the Oval Office, including the press briefing room.
During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.
For instance the Oval Office of the The White House is essentially two Parabolas facing one another and as such an interesting effect happens.
Within the Executive Office, the President's innermost layer of aides ( and their assistants ) are located in the White House Office.
File: 1943 Soong May-ling in White House Oval Office. jpg | 1943 Soong in the White House Oval Office to conduct a press conference.
** Office of White House Liaison

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