Interviews With Historians

HISTORIANS ON GEORGE WASHINGTON’S ROLE IN THE BUILDING OF THE WHITE HOUSE

In this segment, historians Richard Norton Smith, Doris Kearns Goodwin, William Seale and Anthony Pitch talk about the integral role that George Washington played in the design, location, and building of the White House – in the new city on the Potomac named after him. President Washington is the only president to have never lived in the White House.

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