Word: capitol
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...eighth-floor apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He waves an arm through the air. "Some view, huh?" he says in his famed Brooklyn baritone. Some view: first the Potomac River, then a panorama of marble. Directly ahead, in a precise line, are the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. To the left is the Kennedy Center; to the right, the Jefferson Memorial. From his balcony King can also see the Watergate apartments, the home of his childhood friend Herbie Cohen, a successful lawyer and consultant. King used to tell a story about how he, Herbie and another Brooklyn teenager...
...beliefs were as widely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a swidely shared by agency types as their low regard for Capitol Hill. In the 1970s, following embarrassing revelations about failed assassinations and bungled covert operations, Congress set up an oversight system and tried to put the agency on a shorter leash. Some CIA officials, including former Director William Colby, applauded the move. "I thought things had changed...
...criticism over the Florida effort. "I can't tell you how much this annoys me," FEMA director Wallace Stickney wrote to employees in a memo last week praising them for a "great job." FEMA official Grant Peterson, sweat dripping from his brow after a visit to Capitol Hill, groused about the bad press. "We've got five disasters on our plate right now," he said. "If there is any morale problem here, it's because people are taking unfair shots...
Though he's careful enough to avoid saying things that could cause a diplomatic embarrassment, he can be winningly unvarnished. When sent to Capitol Hill to explain Washington's spineless policy toward Iraq prior to its invasion of Kuwait, he admitted, "I'm here to defend the policy. It didn't work. When you've got a policy that didn't work, it's not easy to defend." Says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz: "He always conveys the impression that he's speaking bluntly and candidly, and that goes a long...
Ronald Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson spurned carriages and escorts on his Inauguration Day in 1801. Instead, he strolled from his boardinghouse with some friends to the Capitol, where he took the oath of office and became the third U.S. President. He walked back for lunch -- probably with Reagan...