While the world, with bated breath, waits to find out who will occupy the White House for the next four yearswe remember an important period in the history of the American “Executive Residence.” November 6, 1948 Harry Truman he returns to Washington after winning the election to find that a team of engineers will do what his political opponents failed to do: drive him from the White House. The mansion was paying the price of decades of neglect: it was about to collapse. The intervention was carried out with a (lack of) sense of timing: everything was destroyed except the outer shell, inside which a new steel structure was built. Work lasted three years and little attention was paid to aesthetics. When Jacqueline Kennedy when he entered it in 1960, he was distraught and realized that the residence looked like “a hotel furnished by a wholesale furniture company.” The First Lady spent a year redecorating the interior. Therefore, when you visit the White House today, you are not admiring a true neoclassical residence, but rather the fruit of the efforts of a team of interior designers hired by Jackie, in particular. “Sister” Dorothy Parish e Stéphane Boudin.