Obama kicks up White House entertaining

[alienlovechild 75]

Some people not only don't expect one, they wouldn't want it even if it was sent out. I don't pander to politicians, no matter what their stripes.

elitist!

Definitely the worst side of the admins face. I don't mind if he wants to have entertainment in the White House, particularly if that is part of being president but to do so in the name of 'openness for ordinary people' That's a joke, I'm laughing now

Surely there's a good lampoon in this somewhere? This is comedy worthy unlike the normal ######.

Maybe Obama is taking lessons from another administration:

Fun Fact: Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

i bet the toilets were stopped up for months.

I don't think the White House had indoor toilets during the Jackon Administration.

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

Some people not only don't expect one, they wouldn't want it even if it was sent out. I don't pander to politicians, no matter what their stripes.

elitist!

Definitely the worst side of the admins face. I don't mind if he wants to have entertainment in the White House, particularly if that is part of being president but to do so in the name of 'openness for ordinary people' That's a joke, I'm laughing now

Surely there's a good lampoon in this somewhere? This is comedy worthy unlike the normal ######.

Maybe Obama is taking lessons from another administration:

Fun Fact: Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

i bet the toilets were stopped up for months.

I don't think the White House had indoor toilets during the Jackon Administration.

even more distressing.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Some people not only don't expect one, they wouldn't want it even if it was sent out. I don't pander to politicians, no matter what their stripes.

elitist!

Definitely the worst side of the admins face. I don't mind if he wants to have entertainment in the White House, particularly if that is part of being president but to do so in the name of 'openness for ordinary people' That's a joke, I'm laughing now

Surely there's a good lampoon in this somewhere? This is comedy worthy unlike the normal ######.

Maybe Obama is taking lessons from another administration:

Fun Fact: Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

i bet the toilets were stopped up for months.

I don't think the White House had indoor toilets during the Jackon Administration.

Tapping The White House: The early White House lacked running water. The idea was conceived during the Madison administration before the house burned, but water wasn't actually piped in until the Jackson administration. In 1829 (when Jackson took office), the Committee on Public Buildings had decided not to pipe running water to the White House, opting to concentrate funds on the North Portico. During that period, most hotels and private mansions had indoor plumbing, particularly in the bathrooms and kitchens. Springs, cisterns and wells fed the system.

By 1831, the Commissioner of Public Buildings purchased a bubbling spring at Franklin Square in order to pipe water up to the White House in trunks or wooden pipes made of drilled-out logs. As the ponds were dug and the laying of pipe got under way, the engineer decided to substitute iron pipe for the wooden . This was for fire protection, not convenience to the household. A fire engine, purchased by Monroe, was kept with the White House coaches.

By the time ground was broken in the spring of 1833, water was still provided by two original wells located in the breezeways between the house and wings. Laborers dug three reservoirs: one at the Treasury, one at the State Department, and a third at the White House. At the reservoirs, stonemasons set bulky platforms or "pedestals" where the pipes came to the surface. Water flowed freely through the pipes, which by means of grading were kept on a decline to the pedestals, where the water formed spout-like fountains that shot directly into the pools. Situated on pedestals were pumps made of iron and trimmed with brass, protected by wood pumphouses. The system was largely functional by the end of May 1833. The motion produced by the splashing fountains kept the water in the reservoirs from stagnating. A deep bed of clean sand was the filter through which the water passed in its movement within the pool. The pipes from the pools to the building were buried in the ground. Since the pipes had a to carry water to great heights inside in the entire building at the house, the hand pumps provided the necessary pressure. A pump attendant who took care of reservoirs worked the handles at intervals, filling the pipes as well as the small tin cisterns that had been installed to serve each hydrant.

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