I find this picture of John Fitzgerald Kennedy very interesting, because he looks like he’s
stressed out, in the whole tour all of the paintings of the presidents, or other people throughout
the house looked very formal, but the picture of kennedy, he has his head down and his arms
crossed, almost like he wasn’t ready for the picture, but it was a painting he was obviously ready.
It almost makes you wonder what is he thinking at the time he is posing for this picture. It doesn’t
look like he’s thinking to me because his facial expression looks so sad, but what is he so sad
about? Probably the cold war, the Cuban missile crises, he was an advocate for civil rights, and
white people at the time were probably hating on him for it, etc. So he was probably stressed
over a lot of things. By looking at this picture, I can just tell how stressful running our country
really is.
I think our founding fathers, built such an impressive home for the presidents, to show
their dominance, and power. For example, when someone has a really nice car we assume
they’re really rich, they feel confident, and it’s a form of power. So when the president lives in a
huge white house it lets people know that he has the power because his house is nicer, and
bigger than a lot of ours, it’s a symbol of leadership, the white house represents leadership and
political freedom around the world. Also the white house is changed all the time to meet the
likings of the new presidents that come in, so it’s constantly changing to fit their needs, they are
the president and they do work and live in there, so they need to be comfortable running our
country. In grade school we learned that the white house is white to cover up the burning of the
house by the british in the year 1814, but it was always white, they just repainted it after the
burning. Since the white house is such a big tourist attraction it has to be big and elegant so the
president can show off his beautiful home, it needs to appeal to the eye’s of the people as well.
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