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Article: White House West Wing Marks 100 Years
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- November 11, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Over the 100 years that separate Theodore Roosevelt
from George W. Bush, the West Wing of the White House has become a
sharply etched symbol of presidential power and television drama.
In the West Wing, workplace for 18 chief executives, presidents have
planned wars, struggled with the Great Depression, played out the
Cold War. From there, one president worked to contain the Cuban missile
crisis and another dealt with the aftermath of a terrorist attack
on American soil.
None of that was foreseeable in November 1902 when Roosevelt's staff
moved into the new presidential office wing, a small, low-slung building
so quietly well-mannered that it offered ...