Ten years after: an aesthete visits the White House by Terry Teachout

From 2006: The reception rooms are elegant, serene, and immaculately kept, and the windows are so thick that you can't hear any sounds from outside. The walls are covered with paintings, most of them presidential portraits of widely varying distinction. Two are first-class, Rembrandt Peale's "Thomas Jefferson" and a museum-quality 1903 portrait of Theodore Roosevelt […]

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