White-house Sentence Examples

The National Christmas Tree is located at the White House.

In 2005, Richland College received the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award from the White House and the Department of Commerce in recognition of their teaching, learning and community building.

Markie Post is close friends with former President Bill Clinton, and was photographed jumping on Lincoln's bed in the White House.

But he lost 15,000 men in the course of his seven days' retreat, and 20% of the remainder became ineffective from disease contracted in the swamps of the Chickahominy, while enormous quantities of valuable stores at White House on the Pamunkey had been burnt to avoid seizure by the enemy.

The trail dead-ended at a faded white house at the edge of a clearing that commanded a view of the val­ley below.

Two days later McClellan's advanced troops fought a sharp combat at Williamsburg and the Army of the Potomac rendezvoused on the Chickahominy with its base at White House on the Pamunkey (May 7).

The news soon reached McClellan, who thereupon prepared to evacuate White House on June 25 and moved his trains southward to the James covered by his army.

Stuart was to operate at his discretion north of the Chickahominy, and it seems that he was attracted by the enemy's abandoned depot at White House more than by McClellan's retreating army.

There is no legal limitation to his re-eligibility any number of times; but tradition, dating from the refusal of George Washington to be rioniinated for a third term, has virtually established the rule that no person shall be president for more than two continuous terms, If the president dies, the vice-president steps into his place; and if the latter also dies in office, the succession passes to the secretary of state.f The president receives a salary of $75,000 a year, besides $25,000 a year for travelling expenses, and has an official residence called the Executive Mansion, or more familiarly the White House.

He erased the royal lilies from the panels of his carriages; and the Palais Royal, like the White House at Washington, stood open to all and sundry who cared to come and shake hands with the head of the state.

Besides streets running east and west, which are named by the letters of the alphabet, and streets running north and south, which are numbered, there are avenues named for various states, which radiate from two foci - the Capitol and the White House - or traverse the city without any fixed plan.

In L'Enfant's plan a park or mall was to extend from the Capitol to the White House.

Instead of this the mall extends from the Capitol to Washington Monument, which stands near the intersection of lines west from the Capitol and south from the White House.

The White House was built in1792-1799from designs by James Hoban, who closely followed the plans of the seats of the dukes of Leinster, near Dublin, and in 1902-1903, when new executive offices and a cabinet room were built and were connected with the White House by an esplanade, many of the original features of Hoban's plan were restored.

East of the White House and obstructing the view from it to the Capitol stands the oldest of the departmental buildings, the Treasury Building (architect, Robert Mills (1781-1855), then U.S. architect), an imposing edifice mainly of granite, 510 ft.

On the opposite side of the White House is a massive granite building of the State, War and Navy Departments, 567 ft.

Not far from the White House is the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1894-1897; architect, Ernest Flagg), of white Georgia marble in a Neo-Grecian style, housing a collection of paintings (especially American portraits) and statuary; the gallery was founded and endowed in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888) "for the perpetual establishment and encouragement of the Fine Arts."

McClellan followed up the Confederate rearguard and approached Richmond, using White House on the Pamunkey as a base of supplies; this entailed a division of his forces on either bank of the Chickahominy.

This house is as secure as the White House and while I don't appreciate your invading my bedroom, I have to admit this business is beyond my comprehension but that doesn't mean I won't embrace it.

He has also said the CIA never misled the White House on Hussein's weapons arsenal.

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A lobbyist from the Competitive Enterprise Institute wore a White House pin on his shiny lapel.

The White House maintains that Iraq's oil revenue is essential to financing the country's postwar reconstruction.

There is now word that someone tried to send a letter to the White House laced with the lethal poison ricin.

A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on " wildly speculative rumors.

The White House has fought intensely, but so far unsuccessfully, against this revolt in the usually steadfast Republican ranks.

But we mustn't let the warmongers in the White House distract us from the fight against global capital as capital.

A White House conference of governors of states was held at Washington in May 1909, which drew up a " declaration of principles " for the conservation of natural resources, recommending the appointment of a commission by each state to co-operate with one another and with the Federal government; and by the end of the year thirty-six states had appointed Conservation committees.

They belong to the rich man who lives in the big white house there among the trees.

By the end of the four-month campaign, the White House would receive two million dimes.

He and the other prisoners were taken to the right side of the Virgin's Field, to a large white house with an immense garden not far from the convent.

The Sparrow Hills were visible in the distance, with the village, the church, and the large white house.

The White House maintains that Iraq 's oil revenue is essential to financing the country 's postwar reconstruction.

Even the " cheerleading " from the White House and the economic gurus has not revived the sagging economy.

A spokesman in the White House press office said they would not comment on wildly speculative rumors.

In Executive Power, the president is conducting a tawdry affair with a young White House aide.

In 1990 a CNN team followed the violent confrontation around the White House across the river from here.

But we must n't let the warmongers in the White House distract us from the fight against global capital as capital.

Though her husband, President Barack Obama, is the one in the spotlight most of the time, Michelle has carved her own niche in the White House.

In 2006, Colbert spoke at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

Truman invited her to perform in the White House.

They would be able to visit actual battlefields, go on a variety of tours, talk with people from all over the world and take in the many museums near the White House.

Fair or not, First Ladies come under intense scrutiny for their fashion choices, well before they make it to the White House.

By 1966, Christmas trees were such an important part of the holiday festivities in the United States that the National Christmas Tree Association began presenting a tree to the First Lady for display in the Blue Room of the White House.

The lighting of the National Christmas Tree near the White House in Washington, D.C., has been an American tradition since 1923.

One of the most celebrated holiday evergreens is the White House Christmas tree.

The White House Report on No Child Left Behind provides detailed information regarding the goals and perceived benefits of the legislation.

The White House claims that the law will lower health care rates across the board.

They were even spotted at the White House when a group of girls wore them to meet the President, which caused a bit of a scandal.

Previous healthcare reform efforts by Hilary Clinton during her husband's White House tenure had failed, and there was no clear accepted solution to help these millions of families.

We went to the White House and fit Nancy Reagan for her first State dinner after her mastectomy.

Cash took his case for prison reform to the White House in 1972, when he famously refused to play the songs then President Richard Nixon requested.

The White House Easter Egg Roll is one of the most famous Easter celebrations in the United States.

The Real Housewives of DC cast is made up of five women, all of whom are active in political social circles and have connections in the White House and beyond.

Michaele Salahi is a former model and cheerleader, but she and her husband Tareq are best known as the White House party crashers.

A terrorist attack has destroyed the White House and killed the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House.

The public relations possibilities that are associated with blogging and internet connections include the 44th president of the United States transferring his radio show to a weekly webcast and a regularly updated White House blog.

The White House Blog reports that President Obama wants to make our government "more transparent," and wishes to "reach beyond the halls of government" to engage the American public.

As such, the White House now has a Facebook Page, a Myspace Page and a Twitter Page.

Ms. President Patch focuses on women in leadership roles, to encourage scouts to work towards being in the White House as President one day.

It's a big city and a long time ago but he saw the White House and said he watched Lincoln eat with two men.

In the preface it is stated that Howel, "seeing the laws and customs of the country violated with impunity, summoned the archbishop of Menevia, other bishops and the chief of the clergy, the nobles of Wales, and six persons (four laymen and two clerks) from each comot, to meet at a place called Y Ty Gwyn ar Da y, or the white house on the river Tav, repaired thither in person, selected from the whole assembly twelve of the most experienced persons, added to their number a clerk or doctor of laws, named Bllgywryd, and to these thirteen confided the task of examining, retaining, expounding and abrogating.

This was actually the first sparkling wine served at the White House and served when President Nixon entertained the Chinese Premier.