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BumRushDaShow

(174,249 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2026, 07:41 PM 3 hrs ago

Vance family to rent home in Virginia countryside

Source: CBS News

Updated on: July 10, 2026 / 2:17 PM EDT

Washington — The Secret Service has been providing security measures to accommodate an additional residence for Vice President JD Vance and his family in Middleburg, Virginia, two senior law enforcement officials confirmed to CBS News.

Sources familiar with the decision say the rental property would supplement — not replace — the official vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Middleburg is roughly 40 miles from the capital and is well-known for its hunting and horses.

Since the Vance family moved into the vice presidential residence at 1 Observatory Circle, they have made several upgrades, including a new fence for the 72-acre property and the addition of a new chicken coop.

Vance and his wife, Usha, have three young children, and are expecting their fourth this summer.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vance-family-home-middleburg-virginia/

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Vance family to rent home in Virginia countryside (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 3 hrs ago OP

Vance had better start looking at Ohio homes. oasis 3 hrs ago #1

Vance is done w/Ohio - TBF 2 hrs ago #4

That's horse country tonekat 2 hrs ago #8

I know - I used to live in the Reston area TBF 2 hrs ago #9

I lived in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, etc. Do you know about the Mellon jet runway out there? erronis 1 hr ago #11

My time in DC was in the 90s - TBF 1 hr ago #12

LOL popsdenver 3 hrs ago #2

tax evasion, but mopinko 2 hrs ago #3

I thought part of it was his taxpayer popsdenver 2 hrs ago #5

Nowadays we call them tips or gratuities. If Agnew was alive he'd be a trump advisor. erronis 1 hr ago #13

Rachel Maddow made a miniseries podcast on his ride that is super. Bagman. mahina 2 hrs ago #7

There Goes The Neighborhood 2na fisherman 2 hrs ago #6

Think estates - it is a wealthy rural area. TBF 2 hrs ago #10

oasis

(54,500 posts)

1. Vance had better start looking at Ohio homes.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 07:52 PM

3 hrs ago

After 2028 he’ll be taking his sorry ass back there.

TBF

(37,807 posts)

4. Vance is done w/Ohio -

Reply to oasis (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:26 PM

2 hrs ago

He is a "hillbilly" no more! Middleburg has at least a few posh private schools that are very well liked by the executive crowd.

tonekat

(2,612 posts)

8. That's horse country

Reply to TBF (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:49 PM

2 hrs ago

Very well-to-do.

TBF

(37,807 posts)

9. I know - I used to live in the Reston area

Reply to tonekat (Reply #8)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:55 PM

2 hrs ago

and I know about Foxcroft et al ...

Executives like to put their children in posh boarding schools, and they are not all in the NE.

erronis

(25,184 posts)

11. I lived in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, etc. Do you know about the Mellon jet runway out there?

Reply to TBF (Reply #9)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 09:28 PM

1 hr ago

Technically in Upperville. Not far from the now FEMA bunker at Mt. Weather. I used to hike all around that area on the AT and drove by the airport. An amazing view of a long runway hidden from most observers. Apparently there is some agreement that lets the gov't use that private runway.

TBF

(37,807 posts)

12. My time in DC was in the 90s -

Reply to erronis (Reply #11)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 09:38 PM

1 hr ago

I was legal staff so I would learn about such things from the attorneys. I never biked out that far, just around the Reston/Sterling/Leesburg area. I'm not surprised that the government would have stuff out there, though, given the CIA buildings in Great Falls and Middleburg isn't that far away from DC.

popsdenver

(2,916 posts)

2. LOL

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:13 PM

3 hrs ago

His improvements remind me of Spiro Agnew, under Nixon.............

Wasn't Agnew found guilty of fraud for his improvements and kicked out of office????????

mopinko

(74,324 posts)

3. tax evasion, but

Reply to popsdenver (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:20 PM

2 hrs ago

he was taking bribes. like, paper bags full of cash bribes.

popsdenver

(2,916 posts)

5. I thought part of it was his taxpayer

Reply to mopinko (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 08:27 PM

2 hrs ago

improvements to his personal home.........

LOL, in either case, it was probably the last Republican Politician that was thrown out by the Republicans for grifting........
Whatever Agnew did, was a one, on a scale of one to a million, compared to Trump and other current day Republican Politicians...

erronis

(25,184 posts)

13. Nowadays we call them tips or gratuities. If Agnew was alive he'd be a trump advisor.

Reply to mopinko (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 09:49 PM

1 hr ago

About his major claim to fame was the line "nattering nabobs of negativism" which was actually written by William Safire. Safire was an incredibly intelligent person who had a horrible sense of ethics (working for Nixon.)

I just read this (unknown to me) piece in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire#The_%22Safire_Memo%22

The "Safire Memo"

Safire drafted a never-delivered speech titled "In Event of Moon Disaster", for President Nixon to deliver on television in the event the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.[11] According to the plans, Mission Control would "close down communications" with the LEM and a clergyman would have commended their souls to "the deepest of the deep" in a public ritual likened to burial at sea. Presidential telephone calls to the astronauts' wives were also planned. The speech originated in a memo from Safire to Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman, whence the name "Safire Memo", suggesting a protocol the administration might follow in reaction to such a disaster.[12][13] The last line of the draft speech was an allusion to Rupert Brooke's First World War poem "The Soldier".[13] In a 2013 piece for Foreign Policy magazine, Joshua Keating included the speech as one of six entries in a list of "The Greatest Doomsday Speeches Never Made".[14]