Presidential Emergency Operations Center

The Presidential Emergency Operations Center, (other sources say President's Emergency Operations Center ) PEOC mostly short called, is a bunker -like room in the east wing (East Wing ) of the White House. It is not to be confused with the Situation Room.

It was originally built to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Second World War.

Today it is mainly used for this purpose, the President to protect his cabinet and other high government officials in a dangerous situation. It also considered the primary point of retreat of the President if he is staying in the White House and the exclusion zone (P -56 airspace called ) is broken to twinkling or the White House is under fire.

During the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the PEOC was refuge for Vice President Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney, Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Mary Matalin, Lewis Libby, Joshua Bolten, Karen Hughes, Stephen Hadley, David S. Addington and some Secret Service agents.

The P.E.O.C. in Film and TV

  • Intelligence concept
  • The United States government
  • The White House
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