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THE WHITE HOUSE by Kathy Wolfe
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Page 2 THE WHITE HOUSE (continued) • The name of James Hoban is not a wellknown one, but his accomplishment lives on. When Thomas Jefferson organized a competition to obtain the best design for the President’s House, a striking entry was submitted by this Irish immigrant. Jefferson himself presented his own design; however, he and seven others were outdone by Hoban, who went on to design many other public buildings on the Eastern seaboard. • The first cornerstone of the house was laid in the fall of 1792, and it took until late 1798 to complete the exterior. While George Washington supervised the construction, he never lived in it. John Adams was elected president in 1797, and he and his wife Abigail were the first residents, moving in when the home was nearly complete in 1800. They only lived there four months before Adams’ successor, Jefferson, took residence. • Only one U.S. president has had his wedding in the White House. In 1886, Grover Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom in the Blue Room, and made her the youngest First Lady in U.S. history. Seven years l a t e r, s h e gave birth to daughter Esther, the only child of a president ever to be born in the house. But Esther wasn’t the first baby to be born there. That honor belonged to Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, born to Jefferson’s daughter during his term of office. • The East Room has served many different purposes during its history. Abigail Adams used it as a laundry room. During the Civil War, it served as quarters for Union troops. Years later, Jackie Kennedy used it as a theater for the performing arts. It was also where the bodies of both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy lay in state following their assassinations. • Over the years, presidents have added what were deemed necessities to their home. Millard Fillmore established a permanent library during his term in the mid-1850s. He was also responsible for the installation of the first bathtub with running water. William Howard Taft, portly at nearly 350 pounds, had a custom-made bathtub installed, large enough to hold four average men. Electric lights were put in during the term of Benjamin Harrison, but neither he nor his wife ever touched the switches. They were both afraid of being shocked and called their ser-
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vants when they wanted the lights turned on or off. • Teddy Roosevelt moved in with six children and found the home too small to contain them. He ordered the construction of a temporary building for additional office space for the staff. The greenhouses and conservatories were torn down to make room for this temporary addition that turned out to be permanent. Today it is known as the West Wing. • A Christmas Eve, 1929, electrical fire severely damaged the West Wing during Herbert Hoover’s administration. The roof had to be replaced and the charred interiors rebuilt, and in the restoration process, airconditioning was added. • William Howard Taft was responsible for the first Oval Office in 1909, the official office of the president. Prior to that time, the office was rectangular. It was later rebuilt following the damage of the 1929 fire. In 1934, FDR added a second floor to the West Wing and had a new Oval Office created, the one in use today. At one time, the present Oval Office was filled with clotheslines! • In 1933, a March of Dimes campaign funded the addition of a swimming pool at the White House for the therapy of polio-stricken Franklin Roosevelt. The pool was built in the old laundry rooms. Today, this is the site of the White House Press Room, built over the top of the pool, which still exists underneath the floor, accessible through a trapdoor. The deep end is under the press secretary’s podium, while the camera crews stand atop the shallow end. • Harry Truman spent much of his presidency renovating the majority of the building, which had been deemed in danger of collapse. While the living area was entirely gutted and refurbished from 1949 to 1951, Harry and Bess resided across the street at Blair House, the official guesthouse for the president. Expanded over the years, this “guest house” has 70,000 square feet and includes 119 rooms, 14 guest bedrooms,
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What is Clinical Research? Why Participate in Clinical Research? Why be a Volunteer in Research? By Bill Arnold
If I am not mistaken the readers of Tidbits are like most people in this country which would mean that a full 75% of you would claim that you have little to no knowledge about clinical research. This is according to a recent poll conducted by CenterWatch, the global center for research trial information. I would like to improve upon that percentage by explaining a little about research and more importantly about the potential benefits that participating in a research study can provide. As you might guess, the many new medications that are constantly being developed must all go through a considerable process of testing before they are made available to the public. New drug research begins with years of laboratory experiments, then extensive testing in animals, and finally, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testing in people.
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that it has imposed mandatory safeguards and regulations, in addition to requiring that each clinical research study follow a carefully constructed protocol. This protocol must be approved by the FDA before a study can be initiated and then followed with strict adherence by those who conduct the research. Once a new drug is approved for clinical testing it will go through three initial phases of investigation by research sites carefully selected by the pharmaceutical company to conduct the study. It is only after this required testing has been completed that a drug is submitted to the FDA for approval. Even after a drug has been FDA approved it may go through further post-market testing. These phase IV studies are very common and in fact constitute a significant portion of the studies we conduct at Horizons Clinical Research Center, LLC, here in Denver.
public. For some people, perhaps without health insurance, participating in research is a means of obtaining more and better medical attention for their health condition than they would otherwise receive. Volunteers also receive all of their clinic visits, lab assessments, medical exams and study medication free of charge. Typically volunteers also receive compensation for their time and travel, so not only may there be health benefits for participating in research, but financial ones as well.
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