Ever since the building's days as the Japanese Governor-General's Office, it has been a place where many matters of state policy, national livelihood and military strategy have been decided, and is also where presidents down the years have taken their oaths of office.
自總督府時代以降，它便是決定許多國計民生、軍國大事的要地，歷屆總統也在這裡宣誓就職。