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====Little White House==== {{Main|Harry S. Truman Little White House}} [[File:Key West FL HD Little White House04.jpg|thumb|The [[Harry S. Truman Little White House|Little White House]]]] Several U.S. presidents have visited Key West with the first being [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in 1880, followed by [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1889, and [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wlrn.org/post/power-magnet-key-wests-long-history-presidential-visits|title=Power Magnet: Key West's Long History Of Presidential Visits|last=Klingener|first=Nancy|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=December 2, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Taft was the first president to use the first officer's quarters that would later be known as the Little White House.<ref name=tlwh>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/history-little-white-house-museum.htm|title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Key West Museum History|access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref> [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] visited the Florida Keys many times, beginning in 1917.<ref name=":0" /> [[Harry S. Truman]] visited Key West for a total of 175 days on 11 visits during his presidency and visited five times after he left office. His first visit was in 1946.<ref name=tlwh2>{{Cite web |url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/former-president-truman-visits.htm |title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Truman Key West visits |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055525/https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/former-president-truman-visits.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |work=Truman Little White House. |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref> The [[Harry S. Truman Little White House|Little White House]] and [[Truman Annex]] take their names from his frequent and well-documented visits. The residence is also known as the Winter White House as Truman stayed there mostly in the winter months, and used it for official business such as the [[Truman Doctrine]].<ref name=tlwh3>{{Cite web |url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/florida-white-house-media.htm |title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Media center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927162913/https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/florida-white-house-media.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |work=Truman Little White House |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref> [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] stayed at the Little White House following a heart attack in 1955.<ref name=":0" /> [[John F. Kennedy]] visited Key West in March 1961, and in November 1962, a month after the resolution of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. [[Jimmy Carter]] visited the Little White House twice with his family after he had left office, in 1996 and 2007.<ref name=tlwh2/>
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