Description
Flipping The White House offers a privileged glimpse into the astonishing, high-stakes process that is moving day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Every Inauguration Day, while the nation celebrates the dawn of a new administration, a team of 93 permanent staffers back at the White House are tasked with the impossible: in a space of less than six hours, they will whisk the old First Family and all their belongings out of the 132-room mansion and, at the very same time, move the new President - along with the members of his family and their belongings in.
It’s a transition that is part ballet, part military operation and all race-against-time. It can’t begin until the President-elect takes the oath of office at twelve noon and it must be over by the time the new First Family returns. If all goes well, they’ll find their socks in dresser drawers, their personal furniture arranged, pictures hung, family photos displayed, and their favourite snacks in the kitchen. But, as with all finely tuned missions with well- laid plans - the unanticipated often happens.
With first-hand accounts from veterans of White House moving day and rarely seen archival footage and stills, Flipping The White House reveals the true stories inside the White House on Inauguration Day.