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Article: Clinton marks White House's 200th birthday: ; The first president to live in home was John Adams
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- November 2, 2000
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WASHINGTON - With a salute from fifes and drums and bugles,
President Clinton led the celebration of President John Adams'
arrival at the White House exactly two centuries earlier and invoked
Adams' famous prayer for "the best of blessings on this house."
"Our nation was new, carving out the symbols that would define it,"
said Clinton, the 40th chief executive to call the White House home.
Two hundred years later, he said, "these walls carry the story of
America."
"History tells us that even as the city's planners debated the
final design of this house, masons laid its stone foundations more
than 4 feet thick," Clinton told a crowd gathered on the South Lawn
Wednesday. "Like our nation's ...