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[[File:white-house_300_px_6452.jpg|frame|1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. ]]
[[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
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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== Anime ==
* The I-jin attack it in the original ''[[
* The Presidential mansion in ''[[Gundam Wing]] Endless Waltz'' bears a strong resemblance to it...despite being located in Brussels, Belgium.
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* ''[[Wild Wild West]]'' sees our two heroes head on up to meet with the president. You can easily walk right up to the front door without being bothered and their are goats on the lawn.
* ''[[National Treasure]]'' requires Ben and co to break into the oval office to open the president's desk, to get an ancient Indian clue to the lost city of gold.
* In ''[[X
== Live Action Television ==
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* In the late '90s, there was a trend of [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] set in detailed recreations of the White House and surrounding environs, a gimmick which [[Too Soon|probably wouldn't go over very well nowadays]]:
** ''[[Duke Nukem|Duke it out in D.C.]]'', an [[Expansion Pack]] in which [[Excuse Plot|the president has been kidnapped by aliens, are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?]]
** ''Prime Target'', a game based on the ''[[Marathon
*** Oddly, this game averts the [[Moral Dissonance]] trope - when you find the senator halfway through the first level, you [[Exact Eavesdropping|overhear a conversation]] where the CCE's plan to frame you for the crime instead of their previous plan - "After all, who are they going to believe? A senator, or a guy off the street who just killed half a dozen men?"
** ''[[
** Subverted in ''[[Fallout]] 3'': While the Capitol building, National Mall, an many other places are all intact and explorable, the Whitehouse proper is bombed beyond recognition, and bathed in radiation.
* ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'' had 47 kill the Vice-President here.
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