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Modi to stay at US Prez’s official guest house
Narendra Modi to Stay at US Prez’s Official Guest House. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister in over a decade to stay at the U.S. President’s guest house — the 190-year-old Blair House — when he travels to Washington on September 29.
Washington: Narendra Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister in over a decade to stay at the U.S. President’s guest house — the 190-year-old Blair House — when he travels to Washington on September 29.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last one to stay at the guest house. “Built as a private home in 1824, Blair House has played an important role in nearly 190 years of American political, diplomatic and cultural history— from Andrew Jackson’s `Kitchen Cabinet’, to private chats with Abraham Lincoln, to Harry S Truman’s crucial leadership as World War II ended and the Cold War began.“Now, as then, U.S. Presidents continue to rely on Blair House as a significant foreign policy tool,” as per the official information. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh never stayed in the Blair House and always preferred a hotel during his U.S. visits.
The Blair House is the designated guest house of the U.S. president where all his state guests are traditionally known to have stayed. Located across from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Blair House has served as the President’s Guest House since its purchase by the U.S. government in World War II and under the stewardship of the Department of State, it welcomes visiting heads of states and other top dignitaries.
