the White House

the White House

1. The residence of the president of the United States, located on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The president has returned to the White House after his trip abroad.
2. By extension, the US president or the executive branch of the government. The White House will make an announcement about that bill later today.
See also: house, white
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • veepee
  • President Wilson
  • veep
  • 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
  • ave
  • avenue
  • BROTUS
  • alternative
  • alternative facts
  • laissez
References in periodicals archive
Instead, he said Acosta and his employer have shown they are likely to succeed in their argument that their Fifth Amendment rights to due process were violated by the White House.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, CNN said that it is going to seek a preliminary injunction as soon as possible so that Acosta can return to the White House right away.
It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed and its first residents, the second President John Adams and his wife Abigail, moved in.
Vermin and pests were not the only problem that the White House had to deal with.
The switch capped a week in which the president recruited his former legislative director, Phil Schiliro, to return to the White House for a few months and enlisted John D.
Bush did not agree to an interview after leaving the White House, and his office sent an e-mail to friends and associates explaining that he didn't think a New York Times reporter could write fairly about his presidency.
"From our live webstream to a free iPhone app, the White House is using technology to make sure the president s State of the Union address reaches as many people as possible," Phillips said.
The problem with Obama's snitch line is that it violates the federal Privacy Act of 1974, which Congress passed in an attempt to avoid another Nixon-style "enemies list." Former judge and Fox News Channel commentator Andrew Napolitano explained that the White House has put itself into a legal conundrum on this issue.
* During President Madison's stay, the White House was burned and ransacked by the British
In fact, Paulson's emergence represents a major shift in economic policymaking from the White House to Treasury.
That's what many gay rights leaders and gay lawmakers alleged after it was revealed in March that the White House had rewritten the rules to say national security clearances can't be denied "solely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the individual." The previous language, instituted by the Clinton administration, stated that sexual orientation "may not be used as a basis" for denying clearance.
The White House: An Illustrated History by Catherine O'Neill Grace Scholastic Inc.
Her use of terms like criminalize abortion to characterize the pro-life position and guarantee freedom to describe the pro-choice position should have sounded alarms in the White House during the vetting process."
Indeed, environmental and ocean activists were optimistic that, in the face of such dire unanimity, the White House would be hard pressed to ignore calls for the reform of ocean policies.