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    The White House Reconstruction, also known as the Truman Reconstruction, was a comprehensive dismantling and rebuilding of the interior of the White House...
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    to the White House. It remained little changed as of 2010. During the 1948-to-1952 reconstruction of the White House, additional White House workspace...
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    House from late November 1948, to March 27, 1952, during the White House Reconstruction. Truman survived a 1950 assassination attempt at Blair House....
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    of the Truman White House reconstruction. The Grand Staircase is entered on the State Floor from the Entrance Hall. Though White House architect James...
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    The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges...
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    The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D...
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    Resolute desk (category Furnishings of the White House)
    received at the White House on November 23, 1880, and was used in the President's Office and President's Study until the White House Reconstruction from 1948...
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    (1972). White House China. New York: Scribner. ISBN 068412758X. Klara, Robert (2013). The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's...
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    Operations Center. The sub-basement was added during the reconstruction of the White House under Harry S. Truman. It contains storage space, the laundry...
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    The White House (Russian: Белый дом, tr. Bely dom, IPA: [ˈbʲɛlɨj ˈdom]; officially The House of the Government of the Russian Federation, Russian: Дом...
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    The West Wing of the White House houses the offices of the president of the United States. The West Wing contains the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the...
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    president and first lady. During the 1950s reconstruction of the White House, old building lumber from the house was salvaged and re-made into wall paneling...
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    billiard room was made into a formal space. In the Truman reconstruction of the White House (1949–1952), the room was paneled in the late Georgian style...
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    The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution...
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    From Reconstruction to Redemption, 1865–1880." (2016 paper t the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association); online. Lily-White Movement...
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    The Second White House of the Confederacy is a historic house located in the Court End neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1818, it was the main...
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    White House is a two-story structure that serves as office space for the first lady and her staff, including the White House social secretary, White House...
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    The White House Rose Garden is a garden bordering the Oval Office and the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., United States. The garden is...
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    raided and set fire to the White House, along with the Capitol and many other Washington, D.C. structures. The reconstruction took until 1817. 1891 – A...
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    The Green Room is one of three state parlors on the first floor of the White House, the home of the president of the United States. It is used for small...
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    intelligence management center on the ground floor of the West Wing of the White House. While the name suggests it is a single room, it is in fact a 5,000 square...
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    ensure ongoing white domination of the South and boost his 1868 re-election bid. Johnson's 1865 program of presidential reconstruction extinguished any...
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    John R. Lynch (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    these is The Facts of Reconstruction (1913), which argued against the prevailing view of the Dunning School, conservative white historians who downplayed...
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    completion of the Truman reconstruction of the house (1949–52). Jacqueline Kennedy made extensive renovations to the White House in 1961 and 1962. When...
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    The South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., is directly south of the house and is bordered on the east by East Executive Drive and the Treasury...
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    The White House social secretary is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of official social events at the White House, the official...
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    Compromise of 1877 (category Reconstruction Era)
    1877 and the End of Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972785-8. Zuckerwise, Lena. " 'There Can Be No Loser': White Supremacy and the...
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    had gained during Reconstruction. Anti-black violence, lynchings, segregation, legalized racial discrimination, and expressions of white supremacy all increased...
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    Briefing Room is a small theater in the West Wing of the White House where the White House press secretary gives briefings to the news media and the...
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    room is located in the West Wing of the White House, adjoining the Oval Office, and looks out upon the White House Rose Garden. The first inauguration of...
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