Who was the first US President to speak in Westminster Hall in London?
Palace of Westminster 300th anniversary of the Glorious Revolution (1988), and the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War (1995). It is considered a rare privilege for a foreign leader to be allowed to address both houses in Westminster Hall. Since the Second World War the only leaders to have done so have been French president Charles de Gaulle in 1960, South African president Nelson Mandela in 1996, Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, U.S. president Barack Obama in 2011 and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2012. President Obama was the first US President to be allowed to
Westminster Bank, London Westminster Bank, London Westminster Bank is a Grade I listed building in the City of London. The building is now known as Gibson Hall, after the name of its designer, John Gibson. Built in 1865, was commissioned as a new head office for the directors of the National Provincial Bank of England in Bishopsgate. Gibson Hall's exterior elevation features curved panels picturing the crafts and industries that the bank supplied its financial services to. The Building was listed as a Grade I building in 1950. Since its name was changed to Gibson Hall in 1990s, the hall has been operating