Keeping COOL in the White House, Air conditioning of a sort first came to the White House through tragedy. I have been fascinated with the White House ever since President Trump has been in office, and Q has been posting, and 2 things made me happy today. I received my blue wooden Easter Egg from the White House with the signatures of President Trump and Melania and Q posted last night and said 2 wonderful things, "This is why we are here" and "Nothing can stop what is coming.  Nothing.  Q"  I thought people here might like this history of how the 1st families kept cool in the past.  The history is VERY INTERESTING. "During the 19th century Washington’s infamous summer heat and humidity presented challenges to presidents and their families. In that pre-air conditioning era, most chose to leave Washington in summer for fresher places – sometimes estates in Virginia, farms in Massachusetts, seaside or fishing retreats in New England, or on the New Jersey shore or Chesapeake Bay. At times during the hot summer months, first families in the 19th century escaped to the higher and cooler elevation of the hills around Washington. The Lincolns enjoyed spending summers at the cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, and the Clevelands had “Red Top,” their house in the city’s sparsely settled northwest suburbs. Air conditioning of a sort first came to the White House through tragedy. In an effort to cool the stifling sickroom of mortally wounded President James A. Garfield, U.S. Navy engineers prepared an improvised air conditioner in the summer of 1881. An electric blower forced air through a box with thin cotton screens that were kept wet with ice and ice water. Pumped through a duct into Garfield’s bedroom, the device pushed the temperature down to 80 degrees and lowered the humidity. 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.  Woodrow Wilson did not use Taft’s West Wing system, joking that it “was his business to keep cool and that he would do so without artificial means." However, Wilson found it so difficult to keep cool during early summer 1914 that he MOVED HIS OFFICE INTO A TENT  on the southwest corner of the White House at the end of the Rose Garden. The tent, a holdover from the Theodore Roosevelt White House, was equipped with a desk, chairs, electric lights, push buttons, and a telephone, and Wilson did meet with a continual flow of senators, representatives, cabinet officials, and others, including visiting Native American delegations." https://www.whitehousehistory.org/keeping-cool-in-the-white-house