Truman Balcony House. Truman Balcony The Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of the White House, which overlooks the south lawn. It was completed in March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Truman's plans to build a balcony off the Yellow Oval Room were controversial. Truman argued that the addition of a balcony would provide shade for the first floor portico, avoiding the need for awnings, and would balance the White House's south face by breaking up the long verticals created by the columns. Critics of the proposal, including members of the Commission of Fine Arts,
Mary Whitehouse had caused her son to be afflicted" with psoriatic arthropathy. Potter's mother won substantial damages from the BBC and "The Listener". Whitehouse claimed she had a blackout at the interview's halfway point and her comments were not intentional. Some years earlier, Potter had publicly defended Whitehouse on several occasions without agreeing with her arguments. Whitehouse stepped down as President of the National Viewers and Listeners Association in May 1994. Michael Grade, at the time the Chief Executive of Channel 4, reflected on her career: Whitehouse had taken up other campaigns against the permissive society by the early 1970s. She objected