Book of Jeremiah
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Last time the Resolute Desk was moved from Oval Office - After the assassination of JFK.
President Trump has just given the order for a major renovation of White House including duct work system, plumbing, walls, floors, which is being reported after a story MSM reported a claim of Trump having said, The WH is a dump. I believe the President has employed some highly trained cleaners on this renovation job to uncover anything that should not be there such as spy equipment, bugs, recorders, cameras, etc. One thing is for certain. If the Obama Administration left anything behind? It's about to be uncovered and removed. The White House hasn't been renovated since the 40's according to this news story so it is due for a complete restoration. The timing could not be more perfect to do an internal cleaning at the same time.
White House to become less ‘dump’-like in Trump’s absence
The scuzziness has nothing to do with the current occupant. As Jenny Starrs noted for The Washington Post, the White House is a centuries-old mansion whose original designers and occupants, whatever their foresight regarding matters of governance, never planned for the plumbing, wiring, extensions and HVAC systems that would be tacked on in future decades.
President Harry S. Truman imagined the building was haunted, Starr noted — and so dilapidated that he had the place overhauled in the 1940s.
That was the White House’s last major renovation, and many a smirch has accumulated since. President Bill Clinton had a little asbestos problem in the 1990s — when his family returned from vacation once to find their bedrooms unusable while a work crew finished up, according to the New York Times.
And then there are the maggots.
President Barack Obama was famously beset by a housefly during a TV interview a few months into his presidency, amusing reporters when he killed it on camera.
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