Sen. Whitehouse commemorates Gaspee Days
US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has commemorated the so-called Gaspee Days in which a group of Rhode Islanders in 1772 boarded and set ablaze the despised British revenue schooner Gaspee in Narragansett Bay.
The White House went green for St. Patrick's Day on Tuesday - with the water in the fountains on the north and south lawns coloured green to mark the national holiday of Ireland.