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The West Wing is the White House’s western office section in Washington, D.C., serving as the main workplace of the president and senior staff and housing the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, Situation Room, and Roosevelt Room. Created during Theodore Roosevelt’s 1902 White House renovation to separate family living space from official work, it evolved from a supposedly temporary west-side office building into a permanent center of executive operations. Later expansions, fire damage in 1929, rebuilding in 1930, and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 reorganization shaped its modern form. Although many staff offices later moved nearby, it remains the symbolic center of presidential decision-making in the United States.
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