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Isn't there something about the Whitehouse Oval office carpet changing during war/peace times?
It has def been the 'war' one in recent times and many other times post WWII.
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The man from Snopes, he say no:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/turnhead.asp
(he also says you've been reading Dan Brown books)
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The 222 years thing is very much open to interpretation. If the US were known to use military personnel abroad in a year, that was deemed as being at war in that research.
If I am going to be really pedantic, war is a legal status and the US have only technically been at war a handful of times.
Edit: The only formally declared US wars were 1812, Spanish-American, Mexican-American, WWI, and WWII.