Sit Room

Ever-vigilant Pete has passed along links to new Situation Room photos from Getty Images, including a really fantastic one of one of a privacy booth for phone calls. No telling if the phone booth hides an elevator down to a secret additional conference room with a Cone of Silence.

Also found a couple of old ones from the Clinton days.

JBK videos on YouTube

Pete sent a link to the Kennedy tour videos on YouTube, so I added them to the appropriate pages on the first floor and second floor. The two videos start with the State Dining Room and the Lincoln Bedroom. If would be nice if the videos were pieced out to separate each room, but I've given the time code for the start where appropriate.

Lady Bird's gilded cage

Pete dug up a great image of LBJ, Mrs., in what appears to be her dressing room off the Master Bedroom in 1968, via NARA. It has wallpaper and furniture I've never seen before, but she appears to have kept Jackie's curtains.

Open post: renovations

The Bushes have opened up some of the Truman-era architectural details hidden by the Kennedys in the second floor Central Hall. There are also plans for a Green Room redecoration.

Link to a preservation committee article.

Link to the Lincoln Bedroom redecoration article.

Oval Office corridor

Visitor Michael pointed me to a Guardian UK page with an interesting Blair WH visit slide show, under "Washington." (On the Guardian UK page, click on the picture that looks like the one at right.) I've taken a fine one of them in the corridors of the West Wing and added it to the appropriate page.

There are also a couple of great ones of the PM in the second floor Central Hall, under "A Month With Blair," one of which I nabbed as well for that page.

Kennedy renovation

Luke sent along a link to an interesting page on the Kennedy renovation, complete with scans of documents and photos of moving furniture. Unfortunately, it seems to be more of a teaser than an attempt to actually make the documents available on the Web. Few of the documents are readable.

Press Briefing Room

Looking forward to the refurbished briefing room any time now. Pete sent this link to an article with a photo of moving-out day. Note the worker coming out of the swimming pool storage area under the floor.