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Ford was a regular swimmer and demonstrated his swimming for the press when the pool was completed. [2] The photographer Dick Swanson of People took a picture from the bottom of the pool of Ford swimming. [3] In 1933, an indoor swimming pool had been built for President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his physical therapy for polio.
In 1969, to accommodate the growing number of reporters assigned to the White House, President Richard Nixon had the indoor swimming pool, which had been installed by the March of Dimes for Franklin D. Roosevelt, covered and turned into press offices and a lounge that could double as a briefing room. [3] [4]
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Her husband created the modern press briefing room over Franklin Roosevelt's old swimming pool. [76] Nixon also added a single-lane bowling alley to the White House basement. [77] Computers and the first laser printer were added during the Carter administration, and the use of computer technology was expanded during the Reagan administration. [78]
It included indoor tennis and squash courts, a bowling alley, an indoor swimming pool, a shooting range, guestrooms and was close to a nearby boathouse on the river. [6] Having completed work on the sports pavilion, White then started work on improvements to the mansion. Rhinecliff train station building
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