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With most houses, the White House is decorated and rebuilt to suit the taste and needs of newly residents. Such changes are usually done without too much complaint or dispute.
This is not the case with another Trump administration. The renewal has been more dramatic than normal, and criticism – both beauty and political – more serious.
The Rose Garden was similar to the courtyard at the Florida Resort of President Trump, President Trump. Huge flag poles were made on the north and south lawns. A “Sticky“The Oval Office has been celebrated with the Guild Picture Frames,”Rococo Mirror“Molding and Cancer which are found (In estimates of a critic) Cadbury Banis.
And the final, but of course, at least, Trump’s proposed 90,000 square feet of ballroom is to be made from the Eastern Wing (is a White House 55,000 square feet) And designed to “conform to the President’s pencityDictator chic“When asked why it is necessary, Trump Explained that “Never remained a President who was good in Ballroom.” This is probably true.
The administration provides vague assurance that the “private donors” will cover an estimated $ 200 million cost for anonymous ballroom. Despite that one who raises the tab (or pays bribe), the renewal of the White House does not easily align to combat the expenses of the useless government with administration vows, or Americans should increase the cost of their lives to praise their belt. Your children can meet with Low toysAnd this ballroom is going to be excellent.
But is there any of this matter? Has any President ever paid political value for renewal of waste houses? I can think of one: Martin Van Buren.
The eighth President lost his bid for the reunion in 1840 amid allegations that he lived in “Regal Splendor” in “President Mahal”. Those allegations that were really low base can be found back one because the forgotten Congress speech is then known and “celebrated as”Gold spoon,
On April 14, 1840, whig rape. Charles Ogal of Pennsylvania took the floor of the house to oppose $ 3,665 appropriation for repair and maintenance in the White House and its grounds. Abuzz was abuzz with the capital Rumors A Kentaki Congressman faced a van bureaune on a gold spoon used at the White House Dinner. In question, the Congress denied the story, and the commissioner of public buildings confirmed that no gold tableware was purchased during the tenure of the Van Bureau.
None of this claims that “Golden Goblets, Table Spoon, Knife and Thorn” set the President’s “Palace” dining table.
This was the beginning of a three-day adjective-rich speech. Ogle cultivated his audience at public expense through the grounds and gardens, which “siege and vicious taste of palace dandis” and “giant courts, grand banquet halls, luxurious drawing rooms” and “bright and bright salon”. He included gilt and dames satin, Turkish Divans, Japanese trays, Belgium Carpatting and 72 “Foreign Finger Cups” Production of receipts for French sets and couchs, which for van bureau “After having a meal on your beautiful taping, soft, white, lily fingers, after eating on Frikandeue de Vu and Olelette,”
Such wastage, Ogal maintained, “plain, simple and frugal perceptions of our Republican people who would never think of accommodation” who would never think of habitat “in a palace, his chief servant in a palace is luxurious as a luxurious, and the most proud Asian Haveli, and the most proud as the Asian Haveli is adorned as the most virtuous president” Sloth and the most virtuous president “. Can ,
The Ogl dedicated the second day of his orientation to an account of the Lily-Finger Van Bureau’s aristocratic taste and a career of “show-off democracy”. Third dayHe praised William Henry Harrison’s coarse-border qualities, prioritizing the simple comfort of the 1840 Whig Presidential candidate, who allegedly preferred a frontier log cabin for the splendor of a palace, and a tardard of American Hard Caudar for a flute of French champagne.
Whigs focuses on his 1840 campaign between the log cabin of Harrison and the Palace of Van Bureaune. Gold spoon stories echoed with Americans, who are still struggling to overcome the financial nervousness of 1837. Whig newspapers and press printed countless copies of gold spoon, sometimes adding new and more imaginary reports of collapse to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The strategy acted, and Harrison became president – for a month, before dying, the possibility of typhoid fever.
Americans today cannot consider luxury to be disqualified for Republican virtue in 1840. But prolonged inflation or recession can resume those approaches. In that context, Trump’s deal and evil affection can become a serious political obligation for Trump’s molding and glitzy ballroom.
The next gold spoon of orthia almost writes, and without “fake news” of origin. Chatgpt maybe it can, but it can be better if a living politician did.
Mark ji. Schmeller is an associate professor of history at the University of Sirrakuse.
