![]() Vice presidents have used the circular library as a setting for receptions, media interviews and other functions. The library, one of the nation’s top scientific libraries, holds more than 800 rare books, including works by Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein and Newton. The Naval Observatory provides the astronomical and timing data used by the Navy and other components of the Defense Department. The vice presidential residence is not the only noteworthy aspect of the 72-acre compound. Sharing the grounds with history and science Alerted by a helpful agent, Bush avoiding the waiting photographers by sneaking back into the residence and crawling to her closet to get to her clothes. The agents, however, had Barbara Bush’s back when, clad in a bathrobe, she took her dog for an early morning walk not knowing the Soviet foreign minister was about to arrive for a breakfast meeting. That came as a surprise to Barbara Bush, who at the time was Second Lady under Ronald Reagan, nonetheless found it amusing. One agent, for example, convinced another it was perfectly fine to do his laundry at the residence. Secret Service agents were not above pranking each other during the long, and often tedious hours they spent protecting the Second Family. (Years later, Dick Cheney’s granddaughter would inadvertently summon the Secret Service by mistaking a panic button in the bathroom for the way to flush the toilet.) Secret Service pranks “They requested I never do that again,” Eleanor recalled in a 1998 interview. When the agents burst in with guns drawn, Eleanor explained it was a fleshless man she’d sensed. Eleanor Mondale’s ghostĬonvinced she was being visited by a ghost one night, Walter Mondale’s teenage daughter Eleanor called the Secret Service to report a man in her room. Bush politely said, `You’re welcome anytime We don’t need the bed,’” Denyer said. Barbara Walters described it in a book as “covered in mink, watched over at the head and foot by medallions of the sun and moon” with trapdoors to hide lamps, telephones and electrical gadgets.īut while Rockefeller was willing to leave it behind for his successors, he had no takers. The vice president to then-president Gerald Ford personally chose the $35,000 “cage bed” by the surrealistic artist Max Ernst. Rockefeller’s bedĪlthough Nelson Rockefeller never lived in the residence, using it only for social functions, the bed in the master bedroom was the talk of the town. Here are some of the fun facts author Charles Denyer found about the house and the people who lived there. More: Where does the vice president live? Few people know, but new book will show you A new book, Number One Observatory Circle, could help change that. WASHINGTON - Unlike the White House, the vice presidential residence is not accessible to the public, one of the reasons the public knows little about where the president's No. Watch Video: Pence to students: 'Be inspired' by solar eclipse
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