HISTORIANS ON THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S ROLE IN CHANGING THE WHITE HOUSE
In this segment, historians Richard Norton Smith, William Seale, and Lonnie Bunch talk about Theodore and Edith Roosevelt’s changes made to the White House – both physical and ceremonial changes that are still in evidence today. The Roosevelts oversaw the construction of the West Wing of the White House, a refurbishing of the central mansion and they also instituted new protocol rules there.