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Barack Obama meets in the Situation Room

with his national security advisers on 31 August 2013.

Photograph: Pete Souza

The White House

The shadow of Obama:

what influence will the ex-president have on Biden?

G

Sun 22 Nov 2020    10.00 GMT

Last modified on Sun 22 Nov 2020    10.02 GMT

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barack-obama-joe-biden-presidency-influence

Former President Barack Obama,

then-Vice President Biden,

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

and other officials watch the operation that killed Osama bin Laden

in the Situation Room on May 1, 2011.

Photograph: The White House/Getty Images

The Situation Room got a makeover.

Here's what it looks like now

NPR

September 8, 2023    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/
1198343428/white-house-situation-room-makeover

Mike Luckovich

political cartoon

GoComics

June 14, 2026

https://www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovich/2026/06/14
 

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Situation_Room

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1198343428/white-house-situation-room-makeover

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/
us/politics/situation-room-photos-trump-obama.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2017/jan/17/
barack-obama-presidency-michelle-malia-sasha-white-house-photographer-
in-pictures#img-9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2017/jan/17/
barack-obama-presidency-michelle-malia-sasha-white-house-photographer-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/
weekinreview/08johnson.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/05/05/
136022943/hillary-clinton-adds-detail-to-situation-room-photo

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/05/02/
135931659/photo-inside-the-situation-room-
as-the-operation-happened

White House 3D Tour

White House 3D Tour

A video animation of Peter Sharkey's 3D White House,

hosted by WhiteHouseMuseum.org, with narration.

YouTube > Tysto        Dec 22, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktqgtlFjWRw 

White House

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White_House

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/
us/trump-white-house-changes-renovations.html

https://www.npr.org/local/2021/07/02/
1012311667/historians-are-searching-
for-stories-of-enslaved-people-who-built-the-white-hous

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/
us/white-house-intruder-got-farther-than-first-reported-
official-says.html

the People's House

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/
us/trump-white-house-changes-renovations.html

Executive Mansion

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/
g-s1-94315/white-house-demolishing-east-wing-trump-ballroom

White House map

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/29/us/
white-house-intruder.html

President Biden

met with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general,

in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

The president has so far sought to maintain the status quo

on a path for Ukraine to join NATO.

Photograph: Haiyun Jiang

The New York Times

Allies Pressure Biden to Hasten NATO Membership for Ukraine

Some members of the military alliance

want to set a timetable for Ukraine to join,

though only after the war is no longer raging.

NYT

June 14, 2023    12:01 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/
us/politics/biden-nato-ukraine.html

Oval Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Oval_Office

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/
nx-s1-5425497/trump-whitehouse-ballroom

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/
nx-s1-5366630/trump-oval-office-golden-decor-critique

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/
us/politics/biden-nato-ukraine.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/
1179658326/biden-debt-ceiling

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/
a-new-look-for-the-oval-office/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/
us/politics/15obama.html

Oval Office address / speech

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/
g-s1-12996/biden-address-kamala-harris-2024-election

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/
1179658326/biden-debt-ceiling

Oval Office announcement

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/
us/politics/17gays.html

East Room

the largest room in the White House

with an approximately 200-person capacity,

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/
g-s1-94315/white-house-demolishing-east-wing-trump-ballroom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
East_Room

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/
g-s1-94315/white-house-demolishing-east-wing-trump-ballroom

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/
us/white-house-intruder-got-farther-than-first-reported-
official-says.html

President George W. Bush

delivers a statement Monday, March 19, 2007,

on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Said the President,

"As Iraqis work to keep their commitments,

we have important commitments of our own."

White House photo by Eric Draper

President Bush

Discusses Fourth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Roosevelt Room

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

March 19, 2007    11:30 A.M. EDT

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
2007/03/20070319.html - broken link

Roosevelt Room

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roosevelt_Room

Mr. Shultz, standing,

briefs President Reagan

and a meeting of cabinet members and congressional leaders

about nuclear arms negotiations

between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1984.

Photograph: The White House,

via Getty Images

George P. Shultz,

Influential Cabinet Official Under Nixon and Reagan,

Dies at 100

He carried one of Washington’s weightiest résumés

— labor secretary, treasury secretary and budget director for Nixon

and secretary of state under Reagan as the Cold War waned.

NYT

February 7, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/
obituaries/george-p-shultz-dead.html

cabinet room        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/
obituaries/george-p-shultz-dead.html

The West Wing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_West_Wing

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/03/
590475332/a-week-lost-in-the-west-wing-reality-show

Bill Bramhall

political cartoon

GoComics

April 27, 2026

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East Wing    1902-2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
East_Wing

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Trump's ballroom

https://www.gocomics.com/bill-bramhall/2026/04/27

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https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/
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 underground White House bunker

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/
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South lawn

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on the south grounds

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