European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse At Stair Houie at president Truman pondered korean crisis. Khrushchev 1651 f o a t u r entire building was repainted last month. A Pennsylvania Avenue t _., a the soviet Premier is the latest noted tenant of historic. Blair House which has sheltered Royalty and a or. Brown i by Louis Cassels up staff writer we w it it v vat us we ��4""ji-2l"""" Fonow a Long Parade of Royalty in staying bedroom and sitting room or butt Nea flu Atn Rii in Tyrl to Fol rom to Talshir Hen Nikita a. arrive in Washington today he will room and Bath. The baft is us with a Glass enclosed tub and St til his ree from i Whit Houie. Up photos at a historic mansion across Pennsylvania ave. From the White House. The soviet Premier and his family also will be on ground familiar to a mysterious or. Brown who resided in the handsome pre Civ War mansion when he slipped into town in 1942 for hush hush talks wit president Franklin d. Roosevelt. Or. Brown s real mime was Vyacheslav m. Molotov the soviet foreign minister who was banished to Siberia after Khrushchev came to Power. Ironically Molotov was thu first foreign dignitary to stay at Blair Loe mansion after it was acquired As the presidents guest House. Built in 1824 by or. Jpseph up vol the first surgeon general of the . House As it is popularly Nell Oil has been the scene of Many dramatic incidents in american history. President Andrew Jackson went there frequently to consult members of his famed Kitchen Cabinet former president Harry s. Truman was asleep in an upstairs bedroom of the four Story yellow mansion when assassins tried to gain Entrance and kill House is at its Best at the moment thanks to a recent top to Bottom redecorating Job. Furnished with period furniture including Many priceless Antiques an paintings Lent by the smithsonian museum and the National gallery the mansion is also equipped with the latest modern conveniences. It is fully air conditioned and Khrushchev will find a color television set and late Model High Fidelity radio phonograph in the Library just off the bedroom he to occupy. The mansion has been repainted inside and out new draperies have been Hung and decaying window sashes have Boen re placed. It to pure coincidence the Thrush cd tvs will be the first guests to get the Benefit. The paint up fix up Job was begun several months before the russian visit was reasons of protocol and or Security the White House won t Tell which room Khrushchev will occupy. But the soviet Leader probably will bed Down in the president s suite so called because presi Dent Truman lived there from november 194% to March 1952, while the White House was undergoing extensive renova Tion the suite consists of a bedroom sit tag tin Stab and stapes style the dominated by a massive four poster Ted with or fringed canopy. Mrs. Khrushchev probably the Queen str smite once used by Queen Elizabeth. If mrs. Khrushchev want to indulge in the distinctly a proletariat pleasure of sleeping in the Queen s Bedoc she will have to play Ernie meenie Fille Moe of Zaitse there Are twin Beds in the bedroom and nobody professes to relic Nuj Ber which one her majesty used. Fax " the remaining members of Khrushchev immediate family a his two daughters son and son in Law Wittl occupy other up stairs bedrooms is a soviet foreign minister Andrei Hromyk and other dignitaries of the Loq Tief Zoef Khrushchev party flu have to Ond ing elsewhere. Gromyko probably at the soviet Kab my once the of mrs. George sleeping Cak when or Lovell died w sold Blair mansion for $6.500� the ,1 Preston Blair a newspaper Publ filter was one of the a members of president a Drew Jackson s famous Kitchen Blair later served As an intimate. To president Martin Van Buren and Stilt later was one of the of the re Pullenn party. His son Montgomery Blair became Lincoln s postmaster Genei Al. During the Stormy Era Pfluf Cedias tit civil War. When the of Clarfie Howe draw Ibsh room was a Center of tense political Gawor Ings the Blairs were described Fey was historian As the most influential in the a j a measure of its influence is the 1 that president Lincoln for the delicate Tasick i out Gen Robert e. Lee Ott supreme command of the Uto Fon i a wrestled with the Fate Foi dec Silav i the Blair i oust drawing roo�3ml Fhi eluded that his duty Lay a Fth Hia Tate of Virginia. Just before the civil War. Ton Blair built another ing his own for his Blair Lee. Who had married a Robert e. Lee. Thea lome. The Blair Lee House Haft new to melded with Blair House by eve tube through us intervening Walla the twin mansions remained in the Blair family until 1943. The a they Wase acquired by the government a Aji official guest House a -.? v it
