Truman Balcony 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, argued
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story the "Masterpiece" series on PBS and was aired in Australia on 31 May 2009 on ABC1. The script drew heavily on the Max Caulfield biography "Mary Whitehouse" (1976) and featured a degree of dramatic licence. For example, Whitehouse and others supposedly called their nascent group "Clean Up National TV" until her husband pointed out the unfortunate acronym - they then changed it to "Clean Up TV." Among the many reviews published in the press were two contrasting examples in "The Scotsman" and "The Sunday Times". Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 British BBC