September 30, 2007
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True or False?
True or False?
Legend asserts the White House gained its name from the color of paint chosen for the new structure that replaced the one burned down by the British in 1814.
The answer is False: This is what snopes.com says: The legend does not correspond to historical fact. The President’s House had been given a coat of whitewash as early as 1798. References to the building as the “White House” antedate the War of 1812. As early as the spring of 1811, Francis James Jackson, the former British minister to the US, wrote that his successor would “act as a sort of political conductor to attract the lightning that my issue from the clouds round the Capitol and the White House at Washington.”
Comments (19)
Sounds like a reasonable guess to me. If it isn’t true, it will be false.
It is true, but I had to Google it.
Don’t know, but now I’m curious.
hmmm. That’s strange!
True! I’m just shooting around.
well, it is white.
I say yes, probably was cheaper to use white anyway!
i’m sayin’ *true*.
it’s a guess, i think. or maybe somehwere in the back of my mind i’ve heard that.
dallas cowboys now 4-0 !!
Interesting story…hehehe
My house is the little white house. I mean… very little white house.
why do we call the Crawford,Tx. house the western whitehouse? I don’t know the answer except they used native stone which is white.LOL when will you be going to Africa? Middle of the month?
Hmmm… interesting.
Hope you had a nice weekend.
Interesting fact….hope you had a good weekend..
WWWEEEEEEEEEEEEE I was a winner…..?Do I win a prize?
Thanks for the history lesson!
Have A GREAT Week!
Blessings,
“Susie” :0)
interesting! have a great week hon!
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What other color COULD it be?