Word: abigail
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...seven protesters who will go to trial are Sarah Browning, Joel Reissman, Abigail Schirmer, Margaret Schirmer, Christopher Tilly, Jeffrey Weinberger and Robert P. Wolff...
...first occupant of the building was Secretary of State (later Chief Justice) John Marshall. He could not find suitable lodging in the fall of 1800, and since President John Adams was not certain he wanted to live there, Marshall moved in upstairs for a few weeks. Abigail Adams made immediate history when she did arrive. She hung out the wash in the East Room so critics would not ridicule the sight of the President's underdrawers flapping in the breeze...
...East Room in the White House has heard it all. Abigail Adams flapping out her wash; the tramp of British troops setting fire to the place; cheers for Ulysses Grant, brought from the West to win the war; the shouts of Teddy Roosevelt's rambunctious kids; Truman's political cronies, with ample bourbon, bellowing their fealty; Nixon's house evangelists heaving and praying in the midst of Watergate. Conniving diplomats have come there, as well as big-time pols and heavy moneymen, all summoned for the payoff of a lunch or dinner at the very headwaters of U.S. history...
...second year of the arts medal, but the awards already have a sense of importance about them. Ronald Reagan lauded the honorees very / quietly and eloquently "for crowning our nation's greatness with grace." It was an echo of sorts from a thought expressed 200 years ago. John Adams, Abigail's husband, wrote that he studied war so that his sons might study commerce and agriculture so that their children could study painting and poetry. That hope lives...
...John Adams to his wife Abigail, July...