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And Lincoln went to Dana , Henry Dana , who I think was assistant secretary of war , and actually walked over to the War Department which I guess was next to the White House then , I think that was the old Executive Office Building or its predecessor , [ 87 ] and went in to see Dana and they talked about some of the Democrats who were doubtful and Lincoln said , " Do you know what he wants ? The White City , which referred to the white Beaux-Arts exhibition halls featuring technological and manufacturing breakthroughs as well as European and American art and music , represented what its name suggests : a racial hierarchy that secured white , European and American advancement . A legitimate safety valve in the budget process was widened into a huge loophole through which Congress and the White House jointly enabled each other to permit more than $ 20 billion to leak away . " The White House then presented " new development agenda for the 21st century " with an " accelerated campaign against global poverty " and the elimination of the " digital divide . in Rydell , 8 ) while ironically Edward Bellamy , the very well-respected man whose utopian ideas were gestured to in the White City , believed that the " underlying motive of the whole exhibition , under a sham pretense of patriotism is business , advertising with a view to individual money-making . If we had n't had a mollycoddler in the White House then , Mr. Rumsfeld , armed only with a sleeping bag , might have been able to prevent all the suffering that followed . To complete the evidence of the impression made by the White City , the Municipal Art League , city officials , commercial organizations and private citizens are gaining ground daily in the abatement of the smoke nuisance . The White Feather , for turning tail : French President Jacques Chirac . Erik Larson tested the formula in his 2003 best-seller , The Devil in the White City , with , to my mind , mixed results . Meanwhile , in the shadows of The White City , a sub-city with its own culture was growing ; it too was built on impermanence - catering to large numbers of homeless , mostly single , and migratory men - and it too held a population that was becoming increasingly self-aware . While the White House usually has faced such decisions with aplomb , suggesting that sometimes politicians have to do what they have to do , Karl Rove , the senior Bush political adviser , sounded a tart note .