^ 'Presidential Dentist Visits U-M' (PDF).Īfter the Recording Industry Association of America suggested that the White House Library should be expanded to include sound recordings, that trade group donated over 2,200 LPs during the Nixon and Carter administrations when Ronald Reagan took office, the collection was moved to the White House basement, where it is still located. There had previously been a bowling alley in the West Wing, built for President Truman in 1947, which had been moved to the Old Executive Office Building in 1955. ĭwight Eisenhower made the first White House television broadcast from a special room in the basement in 1953, though the 'broadcast room' was soon divided for other purposes.Ī bowling alley was added by Richard Nixon in 1973. It contains storage space, the laundry, elevator control machinery, the water softener, and incinerator, as well as dressing rooms for White House performers. The sub-basement was added during the reconstruction of the White House under Harry S.

History ĭuring World War II, a bomb shelter was constructed under the East Wing, later converted into the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. The White House Situation Room is located in the basement beneath the West Wing. The basement of the White House, the Washington, D.C., residence and workplace of the president of the United States, is located under the North Portico and includes the White House carpenters' shop, engineers' shop, bowling alley, flower shop, and dentist office, among other areas. The White House bowling alley in 2019, displaying the logo of Melania Trump's Be Best campaign Digging the basement under North Portico in 1950 during White House Truman reconstruction.

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