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	White House Situation Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White House Situation Room, run by the National Security Council staff, is in the basement of the West Wing of the White House.
		The Situation Room was created in 1962 by President Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was attributed to a lack of real-time information.
		The Situation Room is staffed by a number of senior officers from various agencies in the Intelligence Community and senior military officers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House_Situation_Room (287 words)

	White House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The White House is one of the first government buildings in Washington that was made wheelchair-accessible, with modifications having been made during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who needed to use a wheelchair as a result of his polio.
		Although the White House grounds have had many gardeners through their history, the general design, still largely used as master plan today, was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
		The White House remained accessible in other ways as well; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “General” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House (3609 words)

	Map Room (White House) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Map Room is the squarish room to the left of the oval Diplomatic Reception Room.
		The Map Room is one of the rooms on the ground floor in the White House, the home of the president of the United States.
		It was used as a situation room during World War II (now replaced by the West Wing Situation Room).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Map_Room_(White_House) (101 words)

	Overview - White House Museum
		The White House sits at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the capital city of the United States, in the District of Columbia (DC), a federal district carved out of neighboring Maryland and Virginia.
		The White House consists of three major parts: the East Wing, the West Wing, and the Residence.
		Construction of the White House was was begun on October 13, 1792.
	www.whitehousemuseum.org /overview.htm (1028 words)

	Map Room Art and Furnishings
		President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a situation room from which to follow the course of World War II, now serves as a private meeting room for the President or the First Lady.
		It was decorated in 1970, and again in 1994, as a sitting room in the Chippendale style, which flourished in America during the last half of the 18th century.
		James Madison and to have been taken from the White House just before the building was burned during the War of 1812.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/whtour/map.html (285 words)

	White Room
		The White Room LP was originally due to be released in 1989 as the soundtrack to the film, but the release of both was pulled at the last moment.
		From the White House article I learn that the Presidential Emergency Operations Center lies under the East Wing while frm this article I learn it is under the West Wing.
		The PEOC is beneath the East Wing, and the Situation room is beneath the West Wing.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/227/white-room.html (918 words)

	Situation Room is White House's crisis nerve center: 4/3/03
		The White House advisers were close at hand, but the military brass was scattered from Florida to the Middle East.
		The Situation Room was spawned by the defeat of the CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, a bid to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
		On Nov. 22, 1963, the Situation Room was the source of the grimmest information, passed on in calm tones to Cabinet members flying over the Pacific.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-03/04-03-03/a02wn017.htm (853 words)

	CNN.com - Bush, in Nebraska, briefed on terror's aftermath - September 11, 2001
		White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, one of only a handful of staff remaining with Bush, told reporters that Bush looked forward to returning to Washington, but understands that at a time like this, "caution is necessary."
		The White House and the U.S. military, particularly the Air Force, have taken precautions to see that Air Force One was protected throughout its long flight, presumably with fighter escorts.
		CNN Senior White House Correspondent John King reported while Bush was in the air that the White House was evacuated, with many employees running away from the premises on orders from Secret Service agents.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/US/09/11/white.house.2.txt (759 words)

	White House Situation Room - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The White House Situation Room, run by staffers of the National Security Council, is in the basement of the West Wing of the White House.
		It should not be confounded with the Presidential Emergency Operations Center which is situated under the East Wing.
		The room has secure communications systems built into it, and often times a special White House staff duty officer will take notes of sensitive conversations between the President and other world leaders.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/White_House_Situation_Room (272 words)

	WhiteHouseTapes.org: About the Johnson (LBJ) Tapes
		Later, after Johnson left the white House and returned to Austin, Texas, Stegall was the custodian of these Dictabelts, and these materials were not specifically identified in President Johnson's original Letter of Intent of August 13, 1965.
		He was responsible for maintaining the White House switchboard, the telephone systems, the "triple" television sets and news wire machines throughout the White House, and the pager buzzers to aides and secretaries.
		There were long periods of recorded room "silence," broken by short periods of noise and conversation when a cleaning crew entered the room to remove the glasses from the table and vacuum the floor.
	www.whitehousetapes.org /pages/tapes_lbj.htm (7179 words)

	West Wing - White House Museum
		The president continued to live and work in the White House proper for the remainder of the century with his executive offices taking up much of the second floor, the same floor as the living quarters.
		In 1970, Richard Nixon had the swimming pool and gymnasium in the gallery into the present-day Press Briefing Room and Press Corps Offices to accommodate the growing number of reporters assigned to the White House and based in the West Wing.
		Today, the West Wing is the center of activity at the White House, housing the president's top staff, including the White House chief of staff, press secretary, the president's assistants, the White House counsel, and their own staffs.
	www.whitehousemuseum.org /west-wing.htm (1041 words)

	White House Situation Room
		In terms of command centers, the two most famous in the Tom Clancy books are the White House situation room and the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon.
		Various sources indicate the situation room is on one of the two acknowledged basement floors (if not deeper) in the West Wing of the White House.
		The second photo is of both President Bush and Vice President Cheney immediately upon the return of President Bush to the White House.
	www.clancyfaq.com /White_House_Situation_Room.htm (181 words)

	Worldandnation: White House says no unusual communications from plane's crew before crash
		At a White House briefing, Fleischer said the National Transportation Safety Board had been named the lead investigative agency into the crash, in which an Airbus crashed shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
		With the nation on high alert, a result of the Sept. 11 attacks, Fleischer said Bush was in the Situation Room, convening a national security meeting, when he was handed a note shortly before 9:30 a.m.
		The spokesman stepped to the microphones in the White House briefing room less than three hours after the plane crashed with 255 passengers and crew members aboard.
	www.sptimes.com /News/111201/Worldandnation/White_House_says_no_u.shtml (799 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the President of the United States, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration.
		The White House was built after Congress established the District of Columbia as the permanent capital of the United States on July 16, 1790.
		As with much of the White House at the time, the West Wing was substantially remodeled and expanded for President Theodore Roosevelt by the New York architects McKim, Mead and White and contained a new cabinet room, with a small, square office next door that served as the President's office.
	encyc.connectonline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php/White_House (2358 words)

	USNews.com: White House Week
		At the White House last week, the term damage control took on a meaning unrelated to the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.
		The White House spin machine, meanwhile, was twirling at hurricane force, battering Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.
		White House insiders now say privately that President Bush's flyover of the hurricane zone after Katrina struck sent the wrong message.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/050919/19whitehouse.htm (619 words)

	White House Tour
		The room was used as a library and a reception room and was the location of the very first televised press conference held by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950's.
		The room (of which I cannot recall the name of) was once used as an office by Richard Nixon during his presidency as a place to escape the confines of the West Wing.
		Left is a view of the North Lawn of the White House on the evening of September 22nd, 2004.
	www.4familytrees.com /whitehousetour.htm (2293 words)

	President's Emergency Operations Center - United States Nuclear Forces
		The PEOC is differentiated from the White House Situation Room which is located in the basement of the West Wing of the White House.
		The White House is the oldest public building in the District of Columbia, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most famous address in the United States.
		The White House began to move some of its offices across West Executive Avenue in 1939, and in 1949 the building was turned over to the Executive Office of the President and given its present name.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/c3i/peoc.htm (1885 words)

	Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas: Role of the White House
		Nussbaum told the President that the handling of the standoff was "a Department of Justice call, not a White House call." President Clinton responded that he had great confidence in the Attorney General and the FBI.
		Within the White House, I relied principally upon Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, Counsel to the President Bernard Nussbaum, Deputy Counsel Vince Foster, Senior Advisor Bruce Lindsey, and then-Director of Communications George Stephanopoulos.
		Second, the people who had reviewed the situation had concluded that no progress had been made recently and that, in their opinion, no progress would be made using normal means of getting Koresh and the other cult members to come out.
	www.usdoj.gov /05publications/waco/wacoten.html (1777 words)

	CNN.com - White House condemns 'homicide bombing' - April 12, 2002
		President Bush was in the White House situation room for his daily national security briefing when he was handed a note informing him of the Jerusalem attack, U.S. officials said.
		One senior official familiar with the planning, however, said Powell planned to deliver a blunt message: that Arafat is held in low regard by the White House because the president believes he has ignored calls to do more to condemn terrorism and to stop attacks.
		They said Powell plans to make clear in any meeting with Arafat that in the White House view he must act immediately and decisively if he is to establish any credibility in the administration as someone committed to peace and opposed to terrorism.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/04/12/Bush.mideast.reax (629 words)

	Newhouse B1
		Much like that of the White House situation room, where the National Security advisor and intelligence officials monitor world events and brief the president, the mission of the Homeland Security coordination center is to provide a better "daily pulse" of potential threats and a picture of the United States' security status.
		The new facilities also offer redundancies in case the White House has to be evacuated.
		Administration officials wanted a location close enough for White House and agency representatives to reach quickly in an emergency, but one that wasn't neighboring in case of a "dirty bomb" or biological incident around the White House.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1b050902.html (696 words)

	Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room
		The White House Situation Room is arguably the most important facility in the most important building in the world.
		So little is known about the Situation Room that, until the publication of Nerve Center, the American public's knowledge of it is almost entirely based on its portrayal by the entertainment industry.
		The Situation Room truly is the "Nerve Center" for the country - both in times of crisis and in peace time.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Nerve_Center:_Inside_the_White_House_Situation_Room-1574884387.html (861 words)

	White House Got Early Warning on Katrina
		In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents show.
		A 41-page assessment by the Department of Homeland Security's National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), was delivered by e-mail to the White House's "situation room," the nerve center where crises are handled, at 1:47 a.m.
		The White House declined to comment yesterday on the specifics of the reports but noted that the president has repeatedly acknowledged his displeasure with preparations for Katrina.
	www.yuricareport.com /Disaster/WhiteHouseGotEarlyWarningOnKatrina.html (725 words)

	SITUATION SUPPORT STAFF, WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF : RECORDS
		The White House Situation Room has been in existence since the Kennedy administration and has evolved as a support function for the National Security Advisor.
		and it acted as a “second situation room.” Much of its electronic and technological equipment was funded and provided by the Department of Defense.
		In 1985, the Situation Room and the CMC were absorbed under a new entity, the White House Situation Support Staff (WHSSS).
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /resource/findaid/whsss.htm (381 words)

	CNN.com - The Situation Room
		"The Situation Room," anchored by Wolf Blitzer, assembles top CNN correspondents, analysts, contributors and guests for complete, up-to-the minute coverage of the day's events.
		Modeled on the concept of the White House Situation Room, the program combines traditional reporting methods with the newest innovative online resources, making the entire process of newsgathering more transparent and placing the latest news and information at the viewers' fingertips.
		"The Situation Room" airs weekdays from 4 to 6 p.m.
	www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/situation.room (241 words)

	WhiteHouseTapes.org: About the Nixon Tapes
		The recording system for the White House telephone system was located in a room in the mansion.
		The third public release of Nixon's White House tapes consisted of segments of Watergate-related conversations for the months of May and June 1972 which total three hours.
		There was a little thing—they blasted a hole in the brick wall down underneath the White House and put all this machinery inside a brick wall and then put a cabinet door over it.
	www.whitehousetapes.org /pages/tapes_rmn.htm (7394 words)

	The Map Room - WHITEHOUSE.ORG
		The handsome, walnut high chest of drawers on the south wall was made in Philadelphia about 1770 and has shell carvings on its pediment and apron and the knees of its cabriole legs.
		Shortly after arriving in the White House, President Bush ordered it gutted and refitted to house two sturdy shelves, upon which are displayed his sizable collection of 2 liter distilled spirits bottles.
		On a related note - at the center of the Map Room's hand-woven woolen rug is an original Sit & Spin Intellect Augmentation Device, produced by the Kenner Toy Company in early 1974 and used religiously by the President as part of his routine regimen of self-improvement and narcotics abstinence.
	www.whitehouse.org /tours/map_room.asp (385 words)

	Streamingmedia.com: White House to Stream Video for National Security Staff
		The streams will be delivered to 285 White House desktops using technology from VBrick Systems(www.vbrick.com), of Wallingford, Connecticut.
		The VBrick technology was chosen by the White House Systems and Technical Planning Office, which gives IT support to the President and National Security Adviser.
		The NSC was not available for comment on the details of the new video system, but VBrick founder and president Richard Mavrogeanes said that the White House was attracted to the “complete system proposition” provided by the company.
	www.streamingmedia.com /article.asp?id=6888 (297 words)

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