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White House: John Adams
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[T]he first White House was a small one and was covered primarily by an old tarp that John Adams had found in his mother's basement. The structure endured until the War of 1812, during which a British soldier stole one of the tent poles and wouldn't give it back. When the President refused to lend the subsequent mess of blankets to Canadian forces, Canada responded by setting the pile on fire, as they were not nearly as docile as they are now, and could be said to have been quite rude. Fortunately, America's victory in the war won over those lenders who had thought America would go back to being a colony eventually, and the country secured funding for a newer, better White House.
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"'The White House is laying in its stone wall,' said John Flannery, a former federal prosecutor and a Democratic activist. 'They are preparing to deflect the subpoenas for Rove and Miers from the beaches of Capitol Hill to the heights of the Supreme Court if necessary.'"[2]
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John Edwards has a new role to play in the the race for the White House: king maker. Both Clinton and Obama are heavily courting Edwards for an endorsement which could give one candidate or the other the edge in a tight- maybe even gridlocked - nominating race. Hillary Clinton stopped by Edwards house to discuss an endorsement on Thursday and Obama plans to visit Edwards in Chapel Hill later today, according to an an aide who told TPM Election Central that Edwards is torn over who to support.
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