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History of White House Tour Cancellations
Lynn | Mar 08, 2013 | Comments 7
Barack Obama closed the White House to public tours on March 8, 2013.
White House closed to public.
I wanted to know if such action had been taken in the past. Is cancelling the tours really such a big deal, or is the President’s decision to lock the doors of the People’s House creating undeserved controversy? What is the history of closing the White House?
The President blamed sequestration for the closing of The People’s House to the people. Never mind that his administration suggested sequestration, that a Republican House and a Democratic Senate voted to pass it, and the President signed it into law. And let us not forget that Senate Republicans offered a bill to allow the President total control over what to cut and where. Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats said, “No, thanks.”
White House closed for 7 days after JFK assassinated.
All that aside, just how often has the White House been closed to the public? White House tours have been cancelled five times. So, it really isn’t so unusual, right?
White House Tours Cancelled Five Times
- World War II – Consider the events of Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, D-Day, the Holocaust, domestic Japanese interment camps, Hiroshima, and Adolf Hitler. Okay, it seems reasonable to close the White House.
- Major Renovations – the White House closed to the public in 1948 for a major redo. That seems sensible.
- Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy – the White House was closed to the public for seven days, reopening when Jackie Kennedy said it wasn’t right to keep the people from the People’s House.
- September 11, 2001 – planes piloted by terrorists took out the World Trade towers in New York City, hit the Pentagon, and we’ve heard that the plane lost in Shanksville was intended for the White House. No one complained that White House tours were suspended.
White House tours cancelled after 9-11 attack.
- Barack Obama – Although recently spending over $1 Million dollars to play golf with buddies in Florida, the President closes the White House to the people because he is mad that a law he designed and signed went into effect.
Does Mr. Obama’s decision belong in the same category as the other four? Or, is he behaving in a mean, spiteful, and petulant manner unbecoming the President of the United States?
You decide.
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Agree with all said so far about the matter. Cannot excuse poor judgment of the POTUS on this and many other decisions beginning with his choice to attend college as a foreign student and later run for office that requires both parents to be US citizens at the time of his birth.
Lying and cheating through life and still getting away with all of it. One day, just like the rest of us, BHO will face God’s judgment. Obama’s Muslim faith will not save him and neither will his press secretary and all his attorneys.
You can’t fool God. But for some reason folks continue to try. You’re right, Angi Marie, each of us – the President included – will stand before the Lord.
Blessings.
What a fascinating comparison! The media don’t like to comment but I’ll bet a classroom of school kids would. Bless your day, Lynn. Praying for us all.
Roger, it seems the collective ability of “progressive and enlightened” humans to distinguish between the significant and the mundane is at an all-time low. At least a low within my lifetime. Prayer and a return to our “first love” is the path to wisdom that proceeds from God’s vision, not our own. I expect you see the same sad trend so visible here.
Blessings.
I say he is just being plain selfish therefore he caught a hissy fit
Carmen and Dan, most of the responses where this post was read echo your conclusion. “Hissy fit”; what a great descriptive phrase.
I go for mean, spiteful and petulant – fits him quite well.
Dan