Barricades have completely blocked off parks around the White House, which had hosted constitutionally protected protests for more than 100 years. [WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio]
"The concern about security was very, very small," Levey says."John Adams, the first president to occupy the White House, would allow in anyone. Anyone could walk in the front door, go upstairs and find him in the second floor study."
From there, security — and security threats — entered the modern era. During the 1968 riots in D.C., U.S. Army soldiers guarded the White House, though the rioting was concentrated in other neighborhoods and never reached the blocks surrounding the White House.
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