The White House is 200 years old and renewing itself every hour, a great work still in progress. On a typical morning it is a village of 6,000 busy souls: the President, butlers, gardeners, journalists, clerks, economists, cooks, cops, one dog, one cat, and guests and tourists in some kind of harmony on 18 acres.
Workers are washing the outside walls now, while painters stand by to brush on a fresh coat of white paint for a fresh President and his family, come Jan. 20, 2001. On that afternoon, as the Inauguration parade winds down Pennsylvania Avenue, 120 men and women...
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