White House Historical Association Explains East Wing Preservation

Описание: (28 Oct 2025)

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Washington - 23 October 2025
1. Various of White House demolition on East Wing
 
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Washington – 28 October 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart McLaurin, White House Historical Association President:
“Well, of course, the images that were first released into the press that showed the East Wing coming down was a bit jarring because of the actual circumstances of it happening. Of course, the president had been saying for some time that he was going to build the ballroom. We had known since late summer that the staff of the East Wing had moved out. I actually made my last visit on the last day of tours on August the 28th and posted about that and that the ballroom was going to go in this space. And yet when the reality of things happen, they strike us a little bit differently than the theory of things happening. So, it was a bit of a jarring moment, but what has happened since then is so amazing in that in the past two weeks, more people have been talking about White House history, focused on White House History, learning what is an East Wing, what is the West Wing, that's a television show, what are these spaces in this building that we simply call the White House.”
 
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3. Zoom out of East Wing corridor
4. Portraits of former first ladies as seen on the wall in the White House East Wing
 
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Washington – 28 October 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart McLaurin, White House Historical Association President:
“There's a wonderful White House curator who has a staff working with the Chief Usher of the White House, which is like the general manager, and every item in that White House collection is accounted for and cared for.”
 
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6. Wide of former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s portrait hanging in the White House East Wing
7. Close of former First Lady Nancy Reagan’s portrait hanging in the White House East Wing
 
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Washington – 28 October 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart McLaurin, White House Historical Association President:
“But it's the curator who's responsible for caring for those objects. And she and her team very carefully removed all of the objects from the East Wing, the art, the historical furnishings. And that all is very carefully taken care of and stored in curatorial storage.”
 
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Washington – 31 January 1993
9. STILL of former President Bill Clinton and others in White House movie theater (ID: 25296732119294)
 
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Washington – 29 November 2016
10. STILL of White House East Wing decorated for Christmas (ID: 16334585341339)
 
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Washington – 28 October 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart McLaurin, White House Historical Association President:
“There are many, many, many iconic moments throughout the history of this great house. And this of course is a significant one and an important one. But we as the White House Historical Association are there really for the American people to have a front row seat on history. Ours is not to make happen or to keep from happening, but to document what does happen. What happens in this great home that we call the White House, and those who live there and work there and have done so for the past 225 years.”
 
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Washington – 23 October 2019
12. STILL of First Lady Melania Trump in White House movie theater (ID: 18296703709470)
 
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Washington – 1 February 1964
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