Modi to stay at US Prez’s official guest house
23 Sept 2014 5:45 AM IST
Prime minister Narendra Modi will stay at the US President’s guest house — the 190-year-old Blair House — when he travels to Washington on 29 September, nine years after his predecessor Manmohan Singh stayed there.
Singh always preferred a hotel during his US visits, except in 2005 when he stayed at the President’s guest house. ‘Built as a private home in 1824, Blair House has played an important role in nearly 190 years of American political, diplomatic and cultural history from Andrew Jackson’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet’, to private chats with Abraham Lincoln, to Harry S Truman’s crucial leadership as World War II ended and the Cold War began. ‘Now, as then, US Presidents continue to rely on Blair House as a significant foreign policy tool,’ as per the official information. The Blair House is the designated guest house of the US president where all his state guests are traditionally known to have stayed.
Located across from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Blair House has served as the President’s Guest House since its purchase by the US government in World War II and under the stewardship of the Department of State, it welcomes visiting heads of states and other top dignitaries. In New York, Modi will stay at the New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan when he arrives on 26 September. His first public engagement next day would be a visit to Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Centre which was destroyed in the terror attacks in 2001 followed by a visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
Singh always preferred a hotel during his US visits, except in 2005 when he stayed at the President’s guest house. ‘Built as a private home in 1824, Blair House has played an important role in nearly 190 years of American political, diplomatic and cultural history from Andrew Jackson’s ‘Kitchen Cabinet’, to private chats with Abraham Lincoln, to Harry S Truman’s crucial leadership as World War II ended and the Cold War began. ‘Now, as then, US Presidents continue to rely on Blair House as a significant foreign policy tool,’ as per the official information. The Blair House is the designated guest house of the US president where all his state guests are traditionally known to have stayed.
Located across from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Blair House has served as the President’s Guest House since its purchase by the US government in World War II and under the stewardship of the Department of State, it welcomes visiting heads of states and other top dignitaries. In New York, Modi will stay at the New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan when he arrives on 26 September. His first public engagement next day would be a visit to Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Centre which was destroyed in the terror attacks in 2001 followed by a visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
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