CNN denied a report that boss Mark Thompson told staffers in Washington last week to lay off on coverage of the Trump administration’s demolition of the East Wing. “This is reckless and irresponsible conjecture without any fact checking done prior to publication,” a CNN spokesperson told The Hill on Monday in response to the report from Status.

Personal tastes of presidents - as well as the demands of a growing federal government - has helped dictate changes over time to the White House.

While the East Wing of the White House was once steeped in history, it's now just a pile of rubble. And those ruins are apparently fated to become part of a golf course in Washington, D.C.

Betty Ford reportedly said that if the White House West Wing is the “mind” of the nation, then the East Wing — the traditional power center for first ladies — is the “heart.”

People familiar with pardon discussions told NBC News that top White House officials became concerned about attempts from outsiders to profit from the clemency process.

The ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, which produced the report, dismissed it as the product of a “sham investigation.”

New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House.

In its 225-year history, the White House has been burned by British troops, reconstructed, expanded, and gut-renovated. This past week, it was partly demolished by its current occupant, who is building a huge ballroom.