Running At, Not For, The White House
Mark Knoller is a White House Correspondent for CBS News.
Memo to the next tenants at the White House: The current tenants have gotten rid of the jogging track.
The quarter-mile loop around the South Lawn has been paved over. It is now an indistinguishable part of the asphalt driveway on which presidential motorcades begin and end.
The White House decided that the four-foot wide rubberized path had deteriorated over the years – and wasn’t worth the cost of replacing it.
It was first installed in 1993 at the behest of the new President Bill Clinton. His morning jogging forays in Washington routinely caused traffic problems and subjected him to shouted questions ...
Memo to the next tenants at the White House: The current tenants have gotten rid of the jogging track.
The quarter-mile loop around the South Lawn has been paved over. It is now an indistinguishable part of the asphalt driveway on which presidential motorcades begin and end.
The White House decided that the four-foot wide rubberized path had deteriorated over the years – and wasn’t worth the cost of replacing it.
It was first installed in 1993 at the behest of the new President Bill Clinton. His morning jogging forays in Washington routinely caused traffic problems and subjected him to shouted questions ...
