"My Fellow Americans" (1996) required the design and the construction of the south façade, South Portico, and Rose Garden of the White House on the sycamore grove of the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina. Another architecturally trained, senior set designer, Harry Otto ("The Terminal", "8 Mile", "Minority Report") wrestled with the 1/8" scale elevations provided by the White House PR Department and reliable photo book research to achieve a realistic and architectural believability in his larger scale details. Our phone relationship with our contacts at the Oval Office was less encumbered before 9-11 than it is now. One fact hasn't changed -location shooting in and around the White House is not an option. It compelled us to design believable an accurate scenery. We amassed a ton of applicable research and designed an identical, digital-quality copy of the original in Washington, D.C.