Pennsylvania Avenue lighthearted celebrations, including a series of day- and nighttime Shriner's parades in the 1920s and 1930s. Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are the founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in the US, at Lafayette Square on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Secret Service closed the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all vehicular traffic. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic, however, was still permitted on the sidewalk. After 9/11 this policy was made permanent. Near the White House traffic is redirected to
Niggers in the White House place again." The poem was reprinted in the "Greenwood Commonwealth" in January 1903, after which it circulated in a number of newspapers during 1903, including in "The Dispatch" on 18 February 1903 and the "Kentucky New Era" on 10 March 1903. A card-mounted copy of the poem cut from the "Sedalia Sentinel" forms part of the Theodore Roosevelt papers preserved by the Library of Congress. A typed caption had been added, stating, "Publications like this show something of what is the matter with Missouri." The poem resurfaced in June 1929 due to a public outcry triggered by another White House