The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
Everywhere you go
There's someone looking for you
And everyone you know
In the house that you've come to
Tom and Elizabeth
And unbearable Steven
Diana thinks you'll stay
So think about what you leaving
The note you left behind
I hope it made you feel better
Diana sat and cried
Michael and I read your letter
"I saw you on the way
On the way to the White House
I'm sorry I can't stay
Let me think back to '96
When Booby had the realest *** feelin' like a ***
They go for 20 hours gettin' them for the 17
A lil' G, look at me, I was 17
Born on the side of town where them killas ride around
Pull up on the block, put a block on tied down
*** in his pants and he stand like, ?*** you
I'm from the other side where we ride like a bus do?
36 *** got me ridin' Lexus
Chevy at the crib, hit the *** from Texas
Dade County D Boy, deals on the ***
Triple C, da mafia, they kill when I say so
Before I rolled a zone, I could court a zone
I had to feed myself, *** I was on my own
Now I push *** bigger than the President
I'm at the White House known as my residence
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I call the shots, I can get your a*** wiped out
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House
Big phantom on the lawn gettin' wiped down
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I got a hundred a them things *** right now
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House
I got them *** gettin' on b*** right now
I don't f*** with p*** n***, took my s*** to Jigga Man
I went to Manhattan and came home a young millionaire
Money on my mind, I'm a trill *** anyway
I slap a *** now for anythin'
Motha*** the other side, *** bleed deep
That's my opinion, wanna know what the *** think?
We load up in 'em things, boy, I'm a head busta
*** the music, where your real muscle?
I'm in the White House, White House
I'm in the White House, White House
I put a hit on them ***, they gettin' wiped out
They gettin' wiped out and not one at a time
'Car full of dead black males' read the headline
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I call the shots, I can get your a*** wiped out
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House
Big phantom on the lawn gettin' wiped down
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I got a hundred a them things *** right now
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House
I got them *** gettin' on b*** right now
I'm the fruit of the loom, I be flyin' in Lears
Give me fruit and I boom, supplyin' for years
I'm on top of the world, I'm gettin' money
Hundred grand in a day? Easy, I'm gettin' money
Pull up real slow, I let the haters watch
I at a steak place, they in a state of shock
You n*** goin' fishin', I gotta play the shark
You better play your part, you ain't gotta play apart
Got a *** that will tear your whole day apart
That sticker make them sit like a Saint Bernard
I'm in the White House, time to close shop
Inventory, wiped out, boy, dat with better glocks
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I call the shots, I can get your a** wiped out
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House
Big phantom on the lawn gettin' wiped down
I'm in the White House, House
I'm in the White House, House
I got a hundred a them things *** right now
We in the White House, House
We in the White House, House