Obamas' temporary home full of history, comforts: ; Blair House, where family will live before the inauguration, was built around 1824

Charleston Daily Mail | January 15, 2009| | Copyright

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama will cross the same marble floor as every president since Andrew Jackson today when he enters Blair House, his new temporary home.

To his right will be the room where Abraham Lincoln put up his feet.

Upstairs is the room where Harry S. Truman looked out after an assassination attempt and said, according to a guard, "What the hell is going on down there?"

The government's official guest residence is rich in history, luxurious in appointment and - after the departure of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard - finally vacant for Obama and his ...

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