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The Situation Room is an intelligence management complex 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 feet (460 m 2) operations suite consisting of a duty watch station and three secure conference rooms.
The American President's Cabinet. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 0-333-60691-4. A study of the U.S. Cabinet from Kennedy to Clinton. Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of the United States Cabinet (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO; three volumes, 2000; reprint, New York: Greyhouse Publishing; two volumes, 2010). A ...
The Lincoln Sitting Room is a small sitting room located next to the Lincoln Bedroom on the second floor of the White House. It was used as the White House telegraph room from 1865 to 1902 (until the West Wing was built). It is furnished in Victorian style to match the bedroom. The overstuffed sofa and matching chair were formerly furnishings ...
The Lincoln Sitting Room makes up the other part of the suite. The room is named for President Abraham Lincoln , who used the rooms for his office. The first room in the White House to carry the name "Lincoln Bedroom" was in the northwest corner of the White House.
We really prioritized the first family's bedrooms on moving day. President and Mrs. Bush had decorated their family quarters in a subtle, elegant style, with many of the furnishings coming from ...
In large, formal homes, a sitting room is often a small private living area adjacent to a bedroom, such as the Queens' Sitting Room and the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House. [ 4 ] In the late 19th or early 20th century, Edward Bok advocated using the term living room for the room then commonly called a parlo[u]r or drawing room , and is ...
The federal government’s lenient work-from-home policies have resulted in millions of square feet of office space sitting empty across the nation, according to a new report from the Government ...
Queens' Sitting Room; R. Red Room (White House) Roosevelt Room; S. Second Floor Center Hall; Situation Room; State Dining Room of the White House; T. Treaty Room; V ...