Inside Trump’s Plan to Paint the Eisenhower Building: FOIA Files

Welcome back to FOIA Files! Remember when President Barack Obama wore a tan suit to a 2014 White House press briefing on terrorism — and sparked widespread derision from the media and Republican lawmakers? President Donald Trump’s
proposal to paint the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building gleaming white has drawn a similar reaction from preservationists and architects, though this time there could be consequences beyond a sartorial faux pas. To find out what the fuss was all about, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Capital Planning Commission, the federal agency that approves construction projects in ...