So it appears as if the White House is more than prepared for any potential threat. According to some reports, it also contains an emergency supply of the President's blood type. The Beast could certainly serve as a "lockdown on wheels." According to Business Insider, it's completely sealed in case of biochemical attack, has a fuel tank covered in foam so it won't explode, a night vision lens and even tear gas cannons.
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Kessler also said that if the President is able to be evacuated above ground, it might be via his personal limo, which is referred to as 'The Beast,' a mega-vehicle with eight-inch-thick bulletproof doors and windows and its own oxygen system. "There is an underground bunker six stories below the White House that's under construction, though for now there are underground tunnels that lead out of the White House. "Evacuating the President is the whole idea," said Kessler in regards to when "lockdown" protocols are implemented. The term "lockdown" might conjure images of giant steal doors slamming down and sealing everyone into the White House, a la the 1999 remake of "House on Haunted Hill." But Anderson confirmed that "nothing physically happens to the building" during a lockdown.Īctually, the whole point during such a situation is "to get the President out, not to lock him in," according to Ronald Kessler, author of "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect." "There was no sense of palpable fear or anything like that," he said. There was a certain amount of tension inside the White House during the situation, Anderson recalled, though ultimately everyone seemed to take it in stride.
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The original Die Hard was based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, about a retired cop who becomes trapped in a skyscraper during a terrorist takeover.The book was a sequel to author Roderick Thorps The Detective, which was adapted into a Frank Sinatra movie of the same name. The bomb squad dogs are trained to sit down if they sense anything suspicious, and they sat down right next to this car." Heres why White House Down 2 didnt happen. "There was a photographer who had a particularly messy car. "The Secret Service patrols the grounds every so often, and there was an incident in a parking lot on West Executive Drive, which is for senior White House staff and photographers," said Anderson, who now works as a photographer himself. This raises and interesting question: What happens when the real White House goes on lockdown, and what's it like on the inside? We talked to a couple people who have been there and seen the world's most famous house in panic mode up close.ĭave Anderson, a White House communications staffer during the Clinton Administration from 1992-'95, recalls a lockdown situation that was both harrowing and humorous. Capitol policeman John Cale (Tatum), who was just denied his dream position as a Secret Service agent, ends up protecting the President in a more unofficial way when the White House is overrun by a group of paramilitary invaders.
The film could best be described as "Die Hard at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" (which could've also been the best description of this spring's "Olympus Has Fallen," but whatever). This weekend brings us the release of "White House Down," a flag-waving extravaganza that aims to make a bona fide action star out of "Magic Mike" hunk Channing Tatum and adds "Django Unchained" gunslinger Jamie Foxx to the ever-growing list of on-screen U.S. I always wonder how producers can create these artistic travesties and watch them without realizing how bad they are.Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum in 'White House Down' Absolutely embarrassing from beginning to end.
The eleven-year-old girl character was as improbable as the actress playing her was insufferable. Every absolutely predictable button was pushed: the perpetrators of the coup were linked to "white supremacist" organizations, Muslims were untainted by original sin and had no connection whatsoever to terrorism, the military industrial complex ruled all, and the idealistic young black POTUS, horribly acted by whoever was playing the role, wanted to "make a difference," don't ya know. Every absolutely predictable button was pushed: the Hollywood's pathologically distorted view of world and national politics managed to turn a reasonably tolerable action movie-replete with lots of explosions and special effects-into a downright laughable piece of implausible garbage. White House Down While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily. Hollywood's pathologically distorted view of world and national politics managed to turn a reasonably tolerable action movie-replete with lots of explosions and special effects-into a downright laughable piece of implausible garbage.
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