![]() ![]() There were limits to the hospitality: Grounds crews wheeled out evergreens in containers to block the path of a garden in the back, where the palm prints of grandkids and paw prints of pets offer a glimpse of the lives of the White House residents. ![]() President Joe Biden, in fact, was at his home in Delaware. “There's a chance the president will walk out and say hello," she said. They wanted to see the Rose Garden, and maybe more. He and wife Lindsey Harrison, 30, came hours early from their Washington home to be in line at 7:07 a.m. “It's sort of a bucket list thing to check off,” said Ryan Harrison, 29. The annual fall and spring tours open the gates on gardens more than 200 years old - the oldest continually maintained landscape in the United States, says the National Park Service For a weekend, the tour sheared off some of the distance between the nation’s executive and a curious, divided public. With some of the most formidable of temporary security fencing down and pandemic restrictions eased, the tours on a not-rainy weekend were a throwback to the White House's early days, when there were fewer restrictions on access to the People’s House.
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