1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (TV program) Wolffe, and Pat Buchanan had appeared on a frequent basis. "Race for the White House" and "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" aired nightly at 6 PM Eastern on MSNBC. The show began airing on March 17, 2008, as Race for the White House with a focus on the 2008 Presidential election campaign. "Race for the White House" was simulcast on Air America Radio (whose regular 6 PM host, Rachel Maddow, is a panelist on the show). During Democrats and Republican Convention weeks, Gregory hosted convention coverage broadcasting from Denver (DNC, week of August 27) and Saint Paul (RNC, week of September 1).
Pennsylvania Avenue on October 27, 1972 to rehabilitate the street between the Capitol and the White House, an area seen as blighted. The new organization was given the mandate of developing Pennsylvania Avenue "in a manner suitable to its ceremonial, physical, and historic relationship to the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government". In 2010, the District of Columbia designated Pennsylvania Avenue from the southwestern terminus of John Philip Sousa Bridge to the Maryland state line to be a "D.C. Great Street". The city spent $430 million to beautify the street and improve the roadway. Ever since an impromptu procession formed