You can also request tours of the Capitol, Library of Congress, Supreme Court, Pentagon, Bureau of Engraving, and/or White House through your local representative. Might be worth a shot in order to better your chances of getting a WH tour.
Tara
living a crazy life with 3 boys
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
~Mary Oliver