The White House, Isn't It?

Lincoln's White House was an open house at the time, with two miles of security round it. You just walk into the white house and people were free to climb in through the windows. He couldn't walk from the office to his own private living quarters without being bothered along a way by people asking for jobs. I see how hours a week of his working time was spent just being harangued by people. And he called them his public opinion baths.