If You Could Tour The White House?

I have been to the White House several times. My Father got to go so I got to go. I did not go into the private residence but my Father did. Instead, I went down to the houshold workers dining area and the kitchens. Your right it is huge. The area where the President and his families food is cooked is actually completely separate from the rest of the huge kitchen though. No one gets to see it. This is done for security. They have to make sure that as few people as possible come in contact with his and his families food. Even for state dinners his food is kept separate even though it will be the same food.

Great post. I have lived in the D.C. area since I was 8 so I been to the White House at least twice as a field trip.I forget that not every one can do that, visit the White house.If I am remembering correctly, they do show you the oval office, and some of the famous bedrooms.You don't get to see the private bedrooms of the president and his family but they shoe you which hall you would take to get to them.Now this is from memory and it was a tour I took waaay before Sept 11. Things could have changed.I hope you get the chance to visit D.C and see the White House.Suggestion, make it a spring trip, our summers are hazy hot and humid.

I haven't been to the White House for many years, but I've seen shows on TV. I find the modern kitchens amazing, especially since I've read that the original kitchen with the fireplace for cooking was used for like a hundred years, way past the time when cooking in a fireplace had become obsolete. My favorite White House room has always been the Blue Room. I would love to be able to spend more time there looking at the furnishings and portraits instead of just being herded through. Can you imagine what the White House was like for the first hundred years when people could just wander in at will? One fact I've always found interesting is that after Lincoln was assassinated and while his wife was mourning in the family quarters upstairs, vandals came in and cut chunks from curtains and rugs and actually skinned the upholstery from furniture. Imagine trying to do that today.

Yes I would like to visit the White House that's a very important place in or country..A lot of history has gone through those walls and if they could talk the tails they could tell.... I also would like to visit Washington DC cause it's our capitol and I believe that we all should go see our history once in our life time... Lot of people don't want to because of all the people there that has coruped our government but we should take some responsiblity for that cause we elected them....

hello there! i am currently reading Dan Brown's Deception Point and there's some description there about the white house. What interests me more is the oval office wherein there's a symbolic carpet. i am really curious about that room. Yes, the kitchen is also very interesting so with the dinning table (do you have any idea how long is the dining table?). Hope that someday I can visit the White House but first i wanted to visit our White House here in the Philippines which is the Malacañang Palace. :-)

If I can tour The White House.I think I should walk around the building to get to know how large it is and then stand on the grass in front of the whie house just like a American president speak to the world,even though I don't what to say.I would also visit the president office to see how that small room influence the world......

I agree with you, I'd love to see the kitchens. I'm not sure how accurate it was but on the series "The West Wing" there was a scene with Martin Sheen as the President and Alan Alda who was running for President were in the room - I guess it was like a utility kitchen or storage room - where there was this huge, and I mean HUGE freezer with every flavor of ice cream you could ever dream of. They each sat at a table eating out of their own big tub, one of them had pistachio, which I love and can rarely find and I forget what the other one had. For me that would be a classic case of "good news/bad news. So I guess my answer is I'd tour where the ice cream is kept first...lol...but they'd better tie my hands! Annie

I think I would like to have a look at it. After all, many famous US presidents ever lived and worked there.

the kitchen is quite impressive and up to recently it had a Filipina in charge as the head chef for the president..she was there for several presidents and allowed very few visitors but they made some documentories of this kitchen and the staff that ran the bakery and all the special dinners that were thrown in the White House for the various world leaders and dignataries..and of course the diet plans were watched as certain cultures had food restrictions. Discovery Channel and History Channel have made tapes on this special area of the White House.