East Room
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Oct 30, 2026
Kat Gilligan TothHOST
She said that the double image was a prophecy, and it meant that he would not live to finish a second term.
Kat Gilligan TothHOST
So when Lincoln's body lay in state in the East Room of the White House in April of 1865, Every mirror in the White House was draped in mourning cloth, and it covered the frames, crepe concealed the glass, nothing was left exposed.
Kat Gilligan TothHOST
There's always been an uneasy link between mirrors and death.
Kat Gilligan TothHOST
And that link goes back centuries and across cultures.
Bob CescaHOST
That was an actual thing that was going on, especially during the 2008 campaign.
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President Obama speaking from the East Room of the White House, telling the nation and the world President Obama is in fact dead.
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It was a U.S.-led strategic...
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I'm sorry, Osama bin Laden is dead.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
And then there's also ghosts of servants.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
One of the earliest stories I heard about was someone would see an apparition of a woman hanging laundry in the East Room, in the ballroom.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
And you say, well, that's really strange.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
But then you learn that when John and Abigail Adams moved into the White House, he was the second US president, but first to live in the White House.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
There was no furniture in the White House.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
They had no money for it.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
And so Mrs. Adams would just tell the servants, why don't you just hang the laundry in the East Room? Because why go outside? We've just got this giant drafty room.
Jeff BelangerGUEST
Might as well just use it for that.
Howard MortmanHOST
There's lots more to learn about the 1986 Iceland showdown, as you'll find in the C-SPAN video library.
Howard MortmanHOST
For now, thanks for listening, happy searching, And for our closing music, it's December 8, 1987, the East Room at the White House, signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Howard MortmanHOST
In the audience, Nancy Reagan sits next to Raisa Gorbachev.
Howard MortmanHOST
Here's how that historic ceremony begins.
Cliff DunningHOST
He
Jeff Allan DanelekGUEST
might've been in the East Room when it got demolished.
Jeff Allan DanelekGUEST
So, you know, we don't know what happened.
Cliff DunningHOST
Oh, God's right.
Adam ReaderHOST
It was also done by Foo Fighters on their cover album, Medium Rare.
Adam ReaderHOST
Actually, in 2010, without the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl performed Band on the Run in the East Room of the White House in a concert honoring Paul McCartney.
Adam ReaderHOST
There, Paul McCartney received the third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.
Adam ReaderHOST
And the ceremony featured a host of leading world figures from various disciplines and various backgrounds.
Chris PlanteHOST
39 years ago, I started going to the White House for dinners.
Chris PlanteHOST
And the East Room, fine, fine, but it's not a very big space anymore.
Chris PlanteHOST
Anytime like the White House Correspondents Dinner, you got to leave the White House and go to the Washington Hilton is generally where the White House Correspondents Dinner goes to where Ronald Reagan was shot outside, along with James Brady and and several other people by John Hinckley, who was in love with a Hollywood actress named Jodie Foster.
Chris PlanteHOST
And that's why he did it.
Bob CescaHOST
And there always has been a ballroom inside the White House, inside the main part of the what they call executive mansion.
Bob CescaHOST
There is an area called the East Room, and it accommodates something like 200 people.
Jody HamiltonPANELIST
Which is plenty.
Bob CescaHOST
Yes, that is a big open space where, yes, you can have a ball there, Bill.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
But what about those dreams that are not ordinary in any sense? Dreams that provide a specific warning, guidance, teaching, or meeting of significance? Where and how do these dreams come to us? People have recounted dreams that seem uncanny in the face of future events.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
President Abraham Lincoln had a dream where he was walking in the White House East Room and and saw a corpse dressed for a funeral.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
He asked one of the guards who had died, and the guard noted that the president had been assassinated.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
Several weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater, and his corpse was placed in the East Room.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
The American author Mark Twain had a dream about his brother dying and having a specific configuration of flowers placed on his chest.
Santosh KrinskyHOST
His brother died in a steamboat explosion shortly thereafter, and his funeral matched the description provided by Mark Twain about his dream.
Joe BerkowitzHOST
It's just it's not a good look.
Joe BerkowitzHOST
So lawmakers and executives crowded into the East Room of the White House in July of 2025 to watch President Trump sign the Genius Act, the landmark crypto bill that set rules for selling stable coins pegged to the U.S. dollar.
Joe BerkowitzHOST
From a podium, Trump rattled off thank yous to the law's architects.
Joe BerkowitzHOST
Where's Bo Hines, he asked.
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