On April Fools Day Easter Monday at 'President's Park' during the world-famous cherry blossom season we'll examine the surprisingly rich comic history of Lafayette Square. This is not an April Fools joke but an actual tour though with an emphasis on the antic and the comedic. We'll tell the funniest and strangest anecdotes in the history of America's most historic locale.
MEET outside the Hotel Washington at F St. and 15th St. N.W. D.C.
Nearest metro stops: Smithsonian and Metro.
Length: About 2 hours.
Discover:
• The White House zoo
• The first office of the astronauts
• The real life Indiana Jones
• The largest gift ever to the White House
• The most unusual gift
• The duel that Hamilton avoided
• The drunken foreign leader
• The secret designer of the White House
• The caterer to Confederates and Unionists
• The Midnight Ride of--you'd never guess
• Italian dancers and femme fatales
• Donkey dinners
• The friendly and unfriendly ghosts of the Presidents' church
• When a slave made a President an offer he couldn't refuse
• The Camel Corps
• The most eccentric Chief Executive
• The nation's worst security risk
• America's most exclusive club
• Elvis has not left the arena
• Grizzly bears and nanny goats on the White House lawn
• Irascible Scotchmen
• The last laugh on the kings of Old Europe
• The White House horse race
• The disappearing spy
• Frederick Douglass's spat with suffragettes
• White House clairvoyants
• The Union sailor who nearly lost the Civil War
• Churchillian humor
• How an all-powerful admiral was fooled
• And more!
We’re highly rated on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html
Your tour guide is a former speechwriter to the President of the United States a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” & author of the hidden history of Lafayette Square—The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood!:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And his latest book The Old Town Horror--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG
And The Lost Capitol:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capitol-Tumultuous-Congress-ebook/dp/B099JBSN9Q
And The Two-Term Jinx:
https://valsec.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-two-term-jinx-edward-p-moser/1124219089?ean=9781530790517
Questions?: [email protected]
Bring your walking shoes and your spring fever. Join us for laughs the cherry blossom season.
MEET outside the Hotel Washington at F St. and 15th St. N.W. D.C.
Event Venue
Hotel Washington, 515 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, United States
USD 23.00