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[[The White House]] is the home of the [[Invisible President]], and the headquarters of the [[Government Conspiracy]]. It's heavily guarded by [[The Men in Black|men in black]]. A [[Government Procedural]] may call it home. [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] may destroy it with their [[Wave Motion Gun]]; friendly [[Aliens and Monsters]] will land on the lawn and [[Take Me to Your Leader|ask to speak to the being in charge]]. Our Hero may be called to [[The White House]] [[Avengers Assemble|to be recruited for]] a [[Spy Drama|top-secret mission]], or to be decorated for preventing [[The End of the World As We Know It]]. |
[[The White House]] is the home of the [[Invisible President]], and the headquarters of the [[Government Conspiracy]]. It's heavily guarded by [[The Men in Black|men in black]]. A [[Government Procedural]] may call it home. [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] may destroy it with their [[Wave Motion Gun]]; friendly [[Aliens and Monsters]] will land on the lawn and [[Take Me to Your Leader|ask to speak to the being in charge]]. Our Hero may be called to [[The White House]] [[Avengers Assemble|to be recruited for]] a [[Spy Drama|top-secret mission]], or to be decorated for preventing [[The End of the World As We Know It]]. |
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The building itself is nice-looking, and fairly big, but not incredibly so; it's certainly a lot smaller than the literal palaces that most heads of state around the world live in. The grandeur in American government architecture was saved for the Capitol, home of Congress<ref><s>D.C. construction codes prohibit any building from being built that would be taller than the Capitol</s> [ |
The building itself is nice-looking, and fairly big, but not incredibly so; it's certainly a lot smaller than the literal palaces that most heads of state around the world live in. The grandeur in American government architecture was saved for the Capitol, home of Congress<ref><s>D.C. construction codes prohibit any building from being built that would be taller than the Capitol</s> [[wikipedia:Washington Monument#cite ref-22|the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts new building heights to no more than 20 feet (6.1 m) greater than the width of the adjacent street.]]</ref>; the Supreme Court didn't even get its own building until [[The Great Depression|1935]] (before, it shunted about various rooms in the Capitol). You can see what the founders of this country were going for... |
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On [[British Telly Tropes|British Telly]], [[Whitehall]] (or sometimes 10 Downing Street) is the [[Establishing Shot]] equivalent of [[The White House]], and the P.M. speaks to the [[Invisible President]] by trunk call. |
On [[British Telly Tropes|British Telly]], [[Whitehall]] (or sometimes 10 Downing Street) is the [[Establishing Shot]] equivalent of [[The White House]], and the P.M. speaks to the [[Invisible President]] by trunk call. |
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