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Theodore Roosevelt hired architect Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White architectural firm to reorganize the layout and use of the White House. This included constructing the West Wing in 1902 and moving executive offices out of the central White House.
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation. New York City: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-43916982-7. Grantham, Dewey W (1958). "Dinner at the White House: Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and the South." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 17#2: 112–30. Harlan, Louis R (1972).
The Theodore Roosevelt desk in William Howard Taft's new Oval Office in 1909. The first Oval Office was constructed as part of the expansion of the West Wing to the White House in 1909 under president William Howard Taft. [8]
View of the back of the Theodore Roosevelt desk during the Truman administration in 1946. The Theodore Roosevelt desk is a mahogany pedestal desk and is owned by the White House. [1] [2] The 30 in (76 cm) high desk has a workspace which measures 90 in (230 cm) wide and 53.5 in (136 cm) deep. [1]
The reason for the absence of a White House Christmas tree during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency is unknown. Sources have various theories for why a Christmas tree was not displayed.
The Public Buildings Administration was asked to investigate the condition of the White House, but no action was taken until January 1948. After the commissioner of the Public Buildings Administration, which had responsibility for the White House, noticed the Blue Room chandelier swaying overhead during another crowded reception, he and the White House Architect conducted their own on-site ...
Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent, 1903. Sargent followed Roosevelt around the rooms of the White House, making sketches looking for the right lighting and pose, but was unhappy with them. When Roosevelt headed toward a staircase to try the rooms on the second level, both of their patience was running thin.
"Niggers in the White House" is a poem that was published in newspapers around the United States between 1901 and 1903. [1] The poem was written in reaction to an October 1901 White House dinner hosted by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt , who had invited Booker T. Washington —an African-American presidential adviser—as a guest.