Inauguration Weekend, Presidential History Tour of Lafayette Square DC!

Inauguration Weekend, Presidential History Tour of Lafayette Square & the White House Neighborhood, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025!

Take a fun trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites relating to the presidency, on Inauguration weekend!

Where: Meet at the USTR Building, 600 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20508.

When: 11:30 am. About 2 hours in length.

What: The White House, Treasury Building, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of astonishing events. We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following, with a focus on the Pressidents:

• The secret of the Washington Monument

• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so

• The hidden architecture of the White House

• Teddy Roosevelt's escape from death

• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution

• The men who tried to K*ll Harry Truman

• Treasury, State Department, and Defense Department spies

• The soldier who saved Jefferson's life

• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War

• Andrew Jackson's craziest duel

• The biggest sex scandal in American history

• White House ghost tales

• Where an assassin stalked President Garfield

• The tragic end of the wife of John Adams's great-grandson

• Mrs. Lincoln's bizarre hobby

• The secret symbols within the Square

• The hero of two continents and the friend of Founding Fathers

• The hero of three nations

• Horse races and graveyards in the Square of old

• When Dolley Madison shamed the cavalry

• When an invading army arrived at the Executive Mansion

• The femme fatale who nearly broke up Kennedy's "Camelot"

• Where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned

• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!

• The First Lady who saved President's Park

• The Confederate banker who saved Mt. Vernon

• Duels to the death in the Old Republic

And more!!

Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr

And his latest, a thriller set in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--

https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776

We’re on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Nearest metro stations: Farragut North and West

Restaurants nearby for afterwards at the Old Ebbitt Grill and the Hamilton.

Questions? Ask away!

Think history’s boring? Think again!!

Event Venue

Office Of The United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street Northwest, Washington, United States