President Abraham Robbins has a few problems...The First Lady likes to hang out in biker bars. The First Daughter has been kicked out of college. The Chief of Staff has tried to kill himself. Scandal is in the air. The press is closing in. Is this any way to run a government? But there is good news. An ordinary house painter shows up to repaint the walls of the White House. Soon, he finds himself at the center of the intrigues and adventures inside America's Executive Mansion and becomes a confidant to the most powerful man on Earth. Hal Marcovitz is a former journalist. He is also the author of the novel My Life With Wings. Painting the White House has been awarded First Place in the category of General Fiction/Novel-Under 80,000 Words by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Says book reviewer IndieReader.com: PAINTING THE WHITE HOUSE, a novel by Hal Marcovitz, is an imaginative and fictional fantasy of a painter hired to do just what the title describes, and while doing so becomes a confidante to the First Family and some of the the other main players. The author brings readers into the mind of the painter, who gets caught up in White House drama and with an engaging and curious nature, this well-crafted story is a fun read, allowing one to think, "what if?"