The thirty-four room house opened to the public in February of two thousand eight after fifteen million dollars in work.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

This must be done to equally divide the four hundred thirty-five voting districts in the House of Representatives among the states.

VOA: special.2010.12.25

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Grover Cleveland really was going to the White House -- ha ha ha! His election would bring some important changes to the country.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

In eighteen fifty-one, he sold the house and the land around it to the federal government.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

On Wednesday he named Nancy Killefer to a new White House position - Chief Performance Officer.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

So I asked them to let me move with Helen into a small one-room house nearby.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The twenty-two men rested until dark, listening to rain hit the roof of the farm house.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

"Momma says--I mean Momma thinks maybe I should go to her house to have the baby.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Each team had to create a design that could keep the inside of the house at a temperature of between twenty-two and twenty-four degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Some of them - especially Henry Clay and Daniel Webster - believed they could continue to control him, even after Harrison moved into the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Every evening Sylvie left her grandmother's house at five-thirty to bring their cow home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

In seventeen ninety-three the Louvre became a national museum to house the country's treasures.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

In nineteen seventy-eight, President Jimmy Carter asked Eartha Kitt back to the White House.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

Theodore Roosevelt lived in the White House from nineteen-oh-one to nineteen- oh-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

In eighteen seventy-six, the electoral votes of three states -- Florida,Louisiana and South Carolina -- were enough to give the White House to one candidate or the other.

VOA: special.2010.03.04