Initially, it was built with the intention of being occupied by the Observatory’s superintendent, but in 1923 the chief of naval operations found the house so perfect that he decided to install himself in it. It was not until 1974 that the Congress wanted to provide an official home to the vice president of the chamber, to improve and lower security costs of the person who occupies the position to which Harris accedes today.
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The first vice president who was in a position to inhabit it, Nelson rockefellerHowever, he decided to continue living in his own home. The reforms delayed his entry into the property and he was caught in the middle of the mandate the possibility of moving. As a consequence, he decided to use it as a playground and was the next vice president, Walter Mondale, who settled permanently in it in 1977. This was published in 2017 by the historian Charles Denyer, in his book on the presidential house, Number One Observatory Circle: The Home of the Vice President of the United States (Rotunda of the Observatory number one: The house of the Vice President of the United States). In which he unveiled some of the mansion’s best kept secrets.
If they are secrets, it is because the privacy of said property is greater than that of the White House. While Biden will be forced to expose the changes in the decorations he makes, the Christmas decorations during each holiday period or the flower arrangements of the gardens of his residence, Kamala will not have those obligations. The house is voluntarily ostracized: surrounded by bushes that protect it from peepers, it has always enjoyed deliberate privacy, due to which there are not too many photos or official tours on it. It has not become famous because the interest of the press has never been focused on divulging its existence, something Denyer talks about in his book: “Ask any American where the vice president lives, and you will almost certainly get a confused look in response.”, he says.
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