They planned to
have other pleasure going about the city to see the sights the next day
and the day following.
"Could we ever go into the house where the President lives?" asked Nan
of her father that night.
"Yes, we can visit the White House or, rather, one room in it," said Mr.
Bobbsey. "What they call the 'East Room' is the one in which visitors
are allowed. Perhaps we may go there tomorrow, if Mr. Martin and I can
finish some business we are working on."
After breakfast the next morning the Bobbsey twins were glad to hear
their father say that he would take them to the White House; and, a
little later, in company with other visitors, they were allowed to enter
the home of the President, and walk about the big room on the east side
of the White House.
"I'm going to sit down on one of the chairs," said Nan. "Maybe it will
be one that the President once sat on."
"Very likely it will be," laughed Mrs. Bobbsey, as Nan picked out a
place into which she "wiggled." From the chair she smiled at her
brothers and sister, and they, too, took turns sitting in the same
chair.
Bert found a pin on the thick green carpet in the room.
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