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Trump escalates push for another bizarre White House renovation as skeptics depart: NYT

President Donald Trump is pressing harder on a White House makeover he's pitched for years as the aides who resisted it thin out. Trump has repeatedly told aides he wants reporters moved out of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room so he can bring back the indoor swimming pool Franklin D. Roosevelt installed in 1933, The New York Times reported Tuesday.…

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