Frist Having House In Nashville Look Like White House - Looking Presidential at Home in Nashville

[Jon8503]

Whether He Runs or Not
Josh Anderson for The New York Times
By THEO EMERY
Published: November 4, 2006

NASHVILLE, Nov. 3 — In the wealthy Whitland neighborhood here, political signs dot the manicured lawns, but neighbors typically maintain a polite distance, keeping their affairs private behind towering magnolia trees, hedgerows and stone walls.

Josh Anderson for The New York Times
The Georgian Revival-style house in the Whitland neighborhood, nearby residents agree, has taken on a distinct White House look.
Still, residents and passing motorists cannot help but peer behind the high green fence that screens renovations under way at 703 Bowling Avenue.

It is not just the sheer size of the project, which has turned the Georgian Revival house into one of the neighborhood’s largest. Nor is it simply the fact that it is the home of the retiring majority leader of the United States Senate, Bill Frist. After all, Senator Lamar Alexander and former Vice President Al Gore both live nearby.

What has neighbors talking is the fact that the family home of Senator Frist, who is often talked about as a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, has taken on a resemblance to the dwelling at another high-profile address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

The similarity is so striking that George S. Buchanan, 63, a Republican-leaning neighbor whose home is separated from Mr. Frist’s 4.3-acre property by a street, said, “I live right next door to the White House.”

There is enough of a similarity that the transformation has become grist for chuckles among locals and out-of-towners alike. Nashvillians are known to drive visitors slowly past the house and point out the resemblance.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/04/washington/04mansion.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

[Skidmore]

1. As if that will make him suddenly electable.

The man is insane.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. The repiglican primaries in 2008 will be a BLOODBATH!

Let's see, you have:
McCain

Frist

Giuliani

Allen whoops!

Romney

Jeb!(:spray:)

Condi another whoops - she'll be busy at the Hague in 2008

Dole (Liddy)

...and about a dozen others.

I have to say I CAN'T wait to see THAT race!:popcorn:

[hwmnbn]

2. That's the closest he'll ever get......

It'll be a pretend "white house" and he can act presidential all he wants in the fantasyland that is his mind.

[Bucky]

4. So if he's elected, he can stay home and diagnose the nation's problems thru video hookup?

First he plays doctor, now he plays president.

What on earth were the Senate Republicans thinking when they put this goofball in charge of their caucus? The thing is, there really are smart Republicans out there, genuine conservatives who are non-loony and just have different opinions from us. No one doubts that Orin Hatch, Pete Dominici, or Dick Lugar are intelligent men, we only dispute their political judgment. But for some reason they never seem to end up getting elected to leadership posts. It's always the KluKluckers and the reality-impaired dimwits who seem to best represent their values.

[Clark2008]

5. The article says Gore lives nearby - I don't think that's true

anymore.

Gore moved to California. I'm not sure if he sold his Nashville home, but I don't think he lives there any longer.

[SharonAnn]

6. Gore has home in Nashville, TN and parents' home in Carthage, TN.

[NashVegas]

10. Gore's Place Was in Belle Meade

Just a couple miles away, but older money.

[blogslut]

7. May herds of cats

shit in his gardens

[Cooley Hurd]

12. :D

:rofl:

[tanyev]

8. Would you want this guy as your heart surgeon?

The house has been in the family since 1951, when the family patriarch, Dr. Thomas F. Frist, his wife, Dorothy, and their four children at the time, moved there from another home in Nashville, according to a family genealogy.

When Dorothy Frist revealed at the dinner table that year that she was pregnant, the genealogy said, her husband, a cardiologist and internist, was so startled that his knife slipped as he was cutting butter, flipping the dish in the air and smearing butter on the ceiling.


Yikes.

[donheld]

9. It would be really scary having a heart surgeon

Who didn't have a heart himself?

[rucky]

11. I wonder if he'll start dressing like Teddy Roosevelt. n/t

[spanone]

13. I drive by his 'Whte House' daily. I give him the middle-finger salute daily.