particular, we look at its history and understand what it's been through and where it's been, we bebe ginn to see that irony, we also understand how the neighborhoods around it play an important role in shaping its history and shaping the destiny of this nation. now, i don't know if you all know this -- i know the historians in the audience do -- the white house wasn't always around the corner. did you know that? nobody knew that. lonnie, you know that. well, what i'm saying is that when the white house or the place where the president first lived was created, there was no washington, d.c. in fact, when george washington was sworn into the presidency, he took his oath at federal hall on wall street in new york city in 1789. and then he took up residence at a place called the samuel osgood house on cherry street in manhattan. so the white house didn't have its start here. he served as the first president in that house from april of 1789 until february of 1790. he then, with the congress, senate, house of representatives, and the rest of the federal government, relocated from new york city t