White House

The White House was the pre-War residence of the president of the United States in Washington, D.C. in 2277.
==Background==
The White House pool underwent renovations in 2042. Several deck chairs were sold to the Whitespring Presidential Cottage and Museum as a result of the renovations.Whitespring Presidential Cottage terminal entries; Presidential Cottage & Museum terminal, Hall of Heroes
In 2077, the president left the White House and secretly began living on Control Station ENCLAVE, a Poseidon Energy oil rig off the coast of San Francisco.Boston Bugle building terminal entries; Boston Bugle article terminal, Article 4 The White House Press Corps was unofficially disbanded around the same time. By October 2077, the West Wing of the building had been empty for over half a year, with nobody having lived or worked politically there for several months. Only a small crew of manual laborers remained on staff to maintain the property.
The building was destroyed when the bombs fell and is now radioactive.Whitespring surveillance recording 5.3.1Vault 76 terminal entries; UNSAVED WORK Glowing ones walk amongst the debris.Fallout 3 Official Game Guide p. 430: "15.02: WHITE HOUSE UTILITY TUNNEL": "The White House was destroyed when the bombs fell. The only access point is a manhole to a Utility Tunnel in the northwest part of the courtyard. At the crossroads is a rusting car. It appears a lunatic attempted to leap the car using a bike (which is farther up the tunnel). Outside, you appear in the ruins of the White House, still highly radioactive. The only living remains are a pair of frightening Glowing Ones. Face them, or flee to one of the concrete "island" on the column supports that are still standing, and blast them from here for some RadAway, and a grand prize."(Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition Tour of the Capital Wasteland)
==Layout==
The way to the White House is to exit the Penn. Ave Northwest station in Pennsylvania Avenue, go up the stairs, and proceed straight until one reaches the building to the north (White House Plaza). A manhole cover on the sidewalk at the southwest corner of the building leading to utility will be visible. This manhole connects to the White House bunker.
==Notable loot==
* Three mini nukes - At the top of the stairs, located left of the entrance.
* Fat Man - Next to the three mini nukes.
* A copy of Pugilism Illustrated - In the utility tunnel on a table near a workbench in the southeast corner of the local map.
==Notes==
* This area is radioactive (6-7 rads/second) as soon as one progresses through the door out of the utility tunnel to Pennsylvania Avenue.
* It is possible for the two skeletons placed with the three mini nukes and two RadAways to glitch and knock the items either under or out of the map so they become unattainable.
* The Oval Office in the Whitespring bunker is named and modeled after the President's office in the White House.
* In the Mothership Zeta add-on, an alien captive recorded log subtitles state that the United States had 38 ICBMs on alert and ready to fire when instructed to do so by the White House.Alien captive recorded log 17
==Appearances==
The White House appears , and is mentioned in its add-ons Broken Steel and Mothership Zeta, as well as and .
==Behind the scenes==
* The White House is based on the government building of the same name, located in Washington, D.C.
* The White House is depicted in a promotional item that came with the real world Pip-Boy 2000 Mk VI FM radio module, Boston Bugle Volume 12, no. 748.
* When Bethesda was making Fallout 3, they realized that they didn't have time in their schedule to make the White House. Ultimately, they decided on simply making it a crater, since it would have been a major target in the War.Fallout Retrospective - The American Dream? (1:32)Istvan Pely: "While we're working on- on DC, we realize that we had not done the uh... the White House yet, and we didn't really have room on the schedule to- to do the White House. We had done a lot of the other... landmarks and- and did ruins of them um... scattered throughout the city but that was kind of the major one, and we were kind of running out of time, like, well, what do we do? It's like, just put a crater. The White House would have been the first thing they took off, so let's just wipe- it doesn't exist here. Uh... it was sort of an Indiana Jones, you know, shoot the guy the whip sort of moment for us but it- it did the trick and I think people got a- got a kick out of that."
==Gallery==
White House mini nukes.jpg|Fat Man and three mini nukes
Fo3 White House 2.png
Fo3 White House 1.png
F76 Whitespring Presidential 6.png|Recreation of the Oval Office in the Whitespring bunker
FO4 Boston Bug promot item-.png|As depicted in Fallout 4 promotional materials
==References==
Non-game
Category:Washington, D.C.
Category:Fallout 3 locations
Category:Broken Steel mentioned-only locations
Category:Mothership Zeta mentioned-only locations
Category:Fallout 4 mentioned-only locations
Category:Fallout 76 mentioned-only locations
de:Weißes Haus
es:Casa Blanca
ja:ホワイトハウス
pl:Biały Dom
ru:Белый Дом
uk:Білий Дім
zh:白宮