Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty are definitely planning to move. But for the time being they will simply exchange their four-bedroom house in Alexandria, Va., for a larger Victorian estate on the grounds of Washington's Naval Observatory, which has been appropriated by Congress as the vice-presidential residence. Jerry Ford, however, has a grouse: nice as the place is, it has no pool. Last week the Fords enjoyed a rare quiet day round their old pool at the house in Alexandria. Betty does not want her husband to be President, but she says...
...when Sadat learned what was going on and ordered its captain to return to his base at Alexandria...
...fatigue, Fischer's trip had its compensations. "The Arab tradition of hospitality," he says, "is alive and well. When we arrived at Sidi Jabir railroad station in Alexandria, members of the press were each presented with a fresh flower by gracious Egyptian girls. At the Alexandria Sporting Club, we were plied with Arab pastries and cool glasses of lemonade." Egyptian crowds all along the route cheered wildly for the two Presidents and directed huzzas at the press corps riding by-until recently a rare experience for Americans in Egypt...
...When the train reached Alexandria, Nixon got a reception even more boisterous and friendly than the one he had experienced in Cairo. A million or more people crammed the sidewalks, perched on the sea walls and crowded the balconies of the sprawling, seedy old Mediterranean city to cheer as the President passed by on his ten-mile motorcade. Lines of policemen on motorcycles flanked the presidential limousine, and four Jeeps full of troops armed with automatic rifles followed the Secret Service car in the procession...
That night, at the dinner he gave for Sadat at the Ras el Tin Palace, the President basked in the memory of his remarkable reception in Alexandria. "There is an old saying," Nixon told Sadat, "that you can turn people out but you can't turn them on. There was no question about the people that we saw yesterday and today-they were from their hearts giving us a warm welcome -and I can assure you, Mr. President, they touched our hearts, and I am sure the hearts of millions of Americans who saw that welcoming on television...