How is “The White House: Inside Americas Most Famous Home” organized?
MF: We looked at a number of ways of doing it and we decided necessarily that we would not do it chronologically, only because people might start at the beginning and think oh, we’ve got a heck of a long way to go if we’re going to get through all 43. RNS (laughs): Do I really want to spend an evening with John Tyler? MF: But as Richard has indicated, it’s a place of connections. So what we’re doing is taking it in different chapters, with the home as the lead and then we do tell the stories of how it got to be that way. Chapter 1 takes a look at the White House that we see today, why is it the size that it is, and we go back to FDR. It had been expanded before that, but because of again the mirroring of what he’s doing with the country and the government, the White House has to expand. So it’s the size it is today because of that final expansion FDR put on. RNS: Probably most people would think of Jackie Kennedy as being the face of the modern restored White House, but in fact it’s Ed
