Word: atoka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedys kept Jackie's and Caroline's horses stabled at Camp David, but the President was at first a reluctant visitor. The family was planning a private country home in Virginia. Only as J.F.K. began using the Government retreat more did he finally ask, "Why are we building Atoka when we have a wonderful place like this for free...
...John Kennedy on Inaugural Day of 1961, waving to the crew of PT-109 on the parade float. It was his picture of Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year-old repeated a few days later as his slain father's body passed...
...been transformed from dusty scrub land into an aquatic paradise. Its 679 square miles of water make its ratio of water to land higher than Minnesota's. The Oologah, Pensacola and Eufaula reservoirs are immense. Keystone, Heyburn, Thunderbird, Hulah-the lakes multiply as fast as Senate bills. Atoka, Fort Gibson, Markham Ferry, Tenkiller Ferry, Wister; the new recreational waters created by dams abound with boats, water-skiers and fishermen. They also mean more tourists and more money...