public sector. Definition. The part of the economy concerned with providing basic government services. The composition of the public sector varies by country, but in most countries the public sector includes such services as the police, military, public roads, public transit, primary education and healthcare for the poor.
Mr. Truman's Balcony. Irritated by the rejection of his West Wing expansion, in 1948, Truman decided to add a balcony to the South Portico at the second-floor level using money already allotted for White House maintenance.
Millard Fillmore was the first President to have a bathtub with running water. He was also the first President to have a stove in the White House.  This is false. The columni â¦ st H.L. Mencken, as a joke, said that Millard Fillmore installed the first bathtub in the White House.