DC -- White House Visitor Center:
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- Description of Pictures: They'd updated a few sections for "Donald J. Trump" -- I guess they're required to use his middle initial every time they refer to him. Understandable since I usually need the middle finger to do the same.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- WHVC_181130_01.JPG: America Celebrates: Ornaments Display
[Which I never had a chance to see because they don't publicize the display of anything in this visitor center very well.]
- WHVC_181130_11.JPG: Donald J. Trump
45th President
- WHVC_181130_53.JPG: Rice Pudding
- WHVC_181130_55.JPG: President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77)
A military man of simple tastes, President Grant brought an army quartermaster to run the White House kitchen, but First Lady Julia Grant soon replaced him with Italian steward Valentino Melah. Melah considered plain rice pudding, the president's favorite dessert, too unsophisticated for the White House and experimented with more complicated versions.
- WHVC_181130_58.JPG: Squirrel Soup
- WHVC_181130_61.JPG: President James A. Garfield (1881)
After President Garfield was shot in 1881, doctors suggested that the president's favorite squirrel soup might revive his appetite. In the White House cookbook from 1894, steward Hugo Ziemann recommended using "three or four good-sized squirrels" and declared the soup to be "very good."
- WHVC_181130_64.JPG: Fried Chicken
- WHVC_181130_71.JPG: President Harry S. Truman (1945-53)
One evening White House maitre d'hotel Alonzo Fields received a last-minute call that 14 of the president's senior advisers needed dinner. With the rest of the staff taking the day off, Fields sprang into action and prepared fried chicken -- one of the president's favorite foods -- along with vegetables, biscuits, and dessert.
- WHVC_181130_74.JPG: Jelly Beans
- WHVC_181130_77.JPG: President Ronald Reagan (1981-89)
More than three tons of jelly beans arrived at the White House for President Reagan's inaugural festivities in 1981. Reagan ate jelly beans during cabinet meetings, in the Oval Office, and even on Air Force One, using a special holder designed to prevent the jelly beans from spilling out during turbulence.
- WHVC_181130_83.JPG: Salted Almonds
- WHVC_181130_85.JPG: President William H. Taft (1909-13)
Weighing more than 300 pounds, President Taft had perhaps the largest presidential appetite. Dinners typically involved multiple courses, including lobster stew, salmon, roast beef, cold tongue and ham, and potato salad, followed by pudding, cake, fruit, and coffee. Taft especially enjoyed salted almonds and snacked on them between meals.
- WHVC_181227_01.JPG: Area Closed
Because of a lapse in federal appropriations, the White House Visitor Center is closed for the safety of visitors and park resources.
Please visit www.nps.gov and select "Find a Park" for additional information about access to other parks and sites in this area.
- AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
- Wikipedia Description: President's Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
President's Park, located in Washington, D.C., United States, includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafayette Park, and the Ellipse. President's Park was the original name of Lafayette Park and Square. The current President's Park is administered by the National Park Service.
White House Visitor Center:
The White House Visitor Center is located in the north end of the Herbert C. Hoover Building (Department of Commerce headquarters between 14th Street and 15th Street on Pennsylvania Avenue NW). The visitor center serves as a starting point for those going on a reserved tour of the White House. The various exhibits also provide an alternate visitor experience for those who did not schedule a tour. The themes of the six permanent exhibits include First Families, Symbols & Images, White House Architecture, White House Interiors, Working White House, and Ceremonies and Celebrations. A variety of other exhibits change frequently during the year.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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