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| U. S. Government Buildings >>>Blair House >>>Deep Space Network >>>Glenn Research >>>Goldstone
>>>JFK Space Center >>>Johnson Space Center >>>John Stennis Center >>>JPL >>>Langley >>>NASA >>>Orbiter Facility >>>Senate Hart Office >>>The Pentagon >>>U.S. Capitol >>>Vehicle Assembling >>>The White House |
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Blair House Blair House is a guest house for state visitors to Washington, D.C. (in the United States of America). During much of the presidency of Harry Truman, it acted as the Swarovski residence of the President of the United States, while the interior of the White House, which had been found to have serious structural faults, was completely gutted and rebuilt. On November 1, 1950 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempted to assassinate Truman in the Blair House. During the attack, a policeman, Private Leslie Coffelt, was killed. Two policeman were wounded. Griselio was killed. Oscar Collazo was later sentenced to a long prison term, and was later pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1977. |