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Hey, I'm Ranger Jenny. Welcome to the White House! Let's go for a tour.

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Each year since 1972

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we've opened the grounds of the White House to tours in the spring and the fall and we welcome all Americans from across the country

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to come see this iconic American landscape. The National Park Service has cared for the White House and its grounds since

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1933 and it officially became part of the National Park system in 1961.

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Since the 1870s every president and first lady has planted commemorative trees on the South Lawn including First Lady Melania Trump in

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August of 2018.

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This is a place you probably know. This is the Rose Garden at the White House.

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It was originally built in 1913 but redesigned by President Kennedy in the

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1960s. Today it's host to all sorts of historic events and formal announcements by the president.

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Every year the kitchen garden grows over a thousand pounds of food.

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Some of that food is used in state dinners and official events at the White House and a good bit of it is

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donated to a local nonprofit.

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One thing I think is really cool is that the south grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

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He's one of the most famous landscape architects of the 1900s. He designed this

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so it was more rural-like, more pastoral. You see rolling hills throughout the south grounds and it gives you a different perspective

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when you're right here in the middle of our nation's capital.