You Could Once Buy “Memento Kits” Made of White House Scraps
The White House may be rather gilded these days , but when Harry Truman moved into the Executive Mansion in 1945 , the property was anything but luxurious — in fact , it was literally falling aside . Truman often wrote missive to friends and family romanticizing the creak and draft in his new home , ideate they were his feuding predecessors : “ The trading floor pop up and the drapes move back and forth ....