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Here's how the White House changed after a massive gut renovation in the 1950s

In 1947, President Harry Truman noticed the White House was hardly structurally sound, and once he won the 1948 presidential election, he commissioned a group of engineers to tackle the issue.

What followed was a massive, four-year-long gut renovation of the Executive Mansion — the results of which make up much of the White House we know today.

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