No
more the sweltering president,
When summer comes around,
Will
have to seek a cool retreat
On some far distant ground.
For
in his offices at home
The latest papers state,
By
artificial means he’ll have
An igloo up to date.
c.
Nov. 14, ‘09
President
William Howard Taft also attempted
to install a type of air conditioning in the expanded West Wing in 1909. The
experimental system consisted of electric fans that blew over great bins of ice
in the attic, cooling the air, which was forced through the air ducts of the
heating system. This never worked well enough and was soon abandoned. Taft also
built a sleeping porch, a screened-in room on the roof of the White House for a
cool place to sleep amid breezes on summer evenings.
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