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Article: White House marks 200 years; Anniversary celebration: John Adams' arrival is re-enacted
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2000
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With a salute from fifes and drums and bugles,
President Clinton led Wednesday's 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.
"Like our nation's ...