Race for the (Miniature) White House
QUEST: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are facing off in Florida to win the White House. By accident I found a miniature White House and a presidential hall of fame right here less than ten miles from where I am sitting at the moment. I do not jest, it has wax molds of the presidents and the most extraordinary miniature White House that is absolutely perfectly put together. In all of its detail along with the various presidents. Joining me now is the creator of the miniature White House.</s>JOHN ZWEIFEL, CREATOR, THE MINIATURE WHITE HOUSE: Welcome to the White House.</s>QUEST: I'm actually sitting on a real --</s>ZWEIFEL: A White House chair. The President Lyndon did not like these chairs because they're so light. He called them toys.</s>QUEST: How many times have you been to the White House?</s>ZWEIFEL: Hundreds and hundreds, sometimes I stayed a week at a time. Starting with the Kennedy administration. I was told now by the White House to keep working with every president and that if I am asked who is my favorite president, I am supposed to say the one that is there now. Because I have got to work with the next one and the next one.</s>QUEST: We will come to the next one and the next one. Why did you decide? And we'll look at the pictures, I was absolutely gob smacked when I discovered this miniature White House and it is perfect in every detail.</s>ZWEIFEL: Not only that but it changes with every administration. If you went to the actual White House you would only see five rooms, and we show 45. We want to share the White House -- this is god's country we're in right here. And the White House is so important to all people. And the patriotism. Why I started this thing was during wartime, I was living in '44, `45, 99 percent of the people were patriotic. And I'm still trying to get that same patriotism in all the people and say hey, it's your house.</s>QUEST: You believe that?</s>ZWEIFEL: Yes.</s>QUEST: It's the people's house?</s>ZWEIFEL: OK, I want you, when you interview the two nominees to say, open up those doors to everybody like we have been able to.</s>QUEST: Who has been your favorite president, and I don't mean the recent one, go back all the way, all 43, who would you choose? Washington, Lincoln, Harrison, Roosevelt?</s>ZWEIFEL: No, no, let's be more recent. Nobody -- this pen was given to me by George H, and he is so patriotic. He sent personal letters, but Rumsfeld was a great help. The one that worked so hard on it was Ford and Reagan.</s>QUEST: If you were to choose between Trump and Clinton, but you're not going to choose?</s>ZWEIFEL: I'm going to ask a couple questions. And will you make an announcement that after the first months you are going to open up the White House to everybody, and then free trade, and --</s>QUEST: Sir, thank you for joining us.</s>ZWEIFEL: It's your house.</s>QUEST: It's my house?</s>ZWEIFEL: Yes, we want you to go home and want to be president.</s>QUEST: Good to see you, sir. Thank you very much indeed. We will continue our journey. I am going to try and nip quickly into the car to see if I can actually start this thing so we can have a real throaty roar. Here we go -- oh!