White House

White House was building, that is seen in Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic X anime. In both game and anime, White House is known as the official residence for President of United Federation. It identically resembles the real-life's building in Washington, D.C., which commonly also has large office room for president, similar to Oval Office.

In Shadow the Hedgehog, White House is only featured during cutscenes of the game. It is known to being located near close of Central City and has swimming pools on the back garden.

History
In the beginning of Shadow the Hedgehog, the president gets contract by his Secretary, who's giving report about alien invaders getting pushing back from the Westopolis and reporting alien invasions in five other cities in the country. While the president tells her to give command about never surrendering to terrorists.

Depending on, if the player chooses to follow True Dark Story in the game, Shadow and Black Arms manages to take over Space Colony ARK and prepare on to their ritual, which involves to defeat all leaders who try resist their invasion. During this, Black Arms activate Eclipse Cannon and fire directly to the White House, destroying Central City along with it. However the President has got time to escape from White House before this to the GUN Fortress, where GUN Commander also tells that, citizens of Central City have evacuated day before to the safe zone.

If the player chooses Semi-Dark story, the White House does not get destroyed, but the President will get evacuated from the building by GUN Commander and G.U.N. Soldiers to the Air Fleet due Central City getting lost to Black Arms. At the outside back garden of White House, Black Doom despise their escape and commands then Shadow to follow them to the Air Fleet and destroy the President's escape pod.

Sonic X
In Sonic X anime, White House is also directly identical to real life's building. During the series, the president is seen hearing about numerous crisis reports from his secretary Christina Cooper in the main office room, which are involved to assaults and threats made by Doctor Eggman.

In the episode "That's What Friends Are For", after Sonic destroys Eggman's base tower, the president wants to meet with Sonic and organize the celebration event in White House. Everyone from Sonic's friends get involved, with the expectation of Sonic himself, who declines the party by instead helping Helen to get island. President's secretary Jerome Wise then tries to hunt down Sonic to get White House as possible by sending an army after him. In the end, Sonic manages to pay visit on White House and the President with one of army helicopters.

Trivia

 * In Shadow the Hedgehog, the President is seen to have photo on his workbench, showing Sonic and Shadow posing near of White House, while the President remembers their feat moments from Sonic Adventure 2. However, there hasn't been given any sign, when this photo has been taken.
 * The cinematic cutscene showing the destruction of the White House has been directly influenced by 1996 science fiction film Independence Day. According to Takashi Iizuka, the game gains numerous film references.
 * Because the game identifies the final story as part of the series' continuity, it is mostly unclear, if the building has ever got destroyed or not due not making appearances in later installments.