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Pages in category "Rooms in the White House" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Roosevelt Room is a meeting room in the West Wing of the White House, the home and main workplace of the president of the United States. Located in the center of the wing, near the Oval Office , it is named after two related U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt , who contributed to the wing's design.
The Map Room is a room on the ground floor of the White House, the official home of the president of the United States. The Map Room takes its name from its use during World War II, when Franklin Roosevelt used it as a situation room where maps were consulted to track the war's progress (for such purposes, it was later replaced by the West Wing ...
The Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor of the White House. The oval space beneath what is now the Blue Room was originally a Servants' Hall, [10] but was turned into a furnace room in 1837. [20] During the White House's 1902 renovation, the room was turned into a sitting room.
The White House may seem staid and formal ... But in 1970, Nixon decided the media needed more space, and the White House Press Briefing Room was built directly over the now-empty pool. The old ...
The West Wing contains the Oval Office, [2] the Cabinet Room, [3] the Situation Room, [4] and the Roosevelt Room. [5] The West Wing's three floors contain offices for the vice president, White House chief of staff, the counselor to the president, the senior advisor to the president, the White House press secretary, and their
The cabinet of Barack Obama meeting in November 2009 Plan of the first (ground) floor of the White House; the Cabinet Room is visible at center. Video about the Cabinet Room and the Cabinet The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776, circa 1873 by Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq, has been on display in the Cabinet Room since the late-1980s.
The White House press room also got a facelift, adding the dark blue curtains and executive mansion's logo to the wall behind the lectern. David Hume Kennerly/Getty.