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...Blair House that Robert E. Lee turned down Abraham Lincoln's request to lead the Union Army; where General William Tecumseh Sherman married the daughter of the Washington Senator who had adopted him; and where Presidents Martin van Buren and William H. Taft sought Blair's counsel. (Apparently as in real estate, politics too is all about "location, location, location." From his residence at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue Blair became a "Kitchen Cabinet" member to many a president after Jackson...
...resignation to Lincoln, the badge of the policeman who was killed saving Truman's life, the same portraits that hung in the sitting room where the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine were hammered out. Today it also contains furnishings and various bric-a-brac donated by House and Garden, General Electric, and Elizabeth Arden among others. During the Blair House's last facelift, Congress agreed only to pay for its structural improvements. For decorations and other such amenities, they refused to foot the bill...
...paper has also dispatched general-assignment reporter Dan Richman to cover the story, with Andrea James pitching in. Richman declined to discuss his plans, though some of the columnists have not been so coy. The news "hit like a chunk of loose viaduct," wrote sports columnist Art Thiel. "I expected to react to this somber state of affairs by getting drunk, but I haven't," wrote fellow sports columnist Jim Moore. Editorial cartoonist David Horsey, who, as McCumber puts it, legally owns two Pulitzers, observed that owning a newspaper is "quite suddenly a sucker...
...women charged with making sure nothing bad happens, that kind of debate is a luxury. Listen in as Air Force General Victor Renuart describes what sounds like top-secret war planning. "Our Chemical Response Force will be on alert," he says, describing what some of the 11,500 troops who are assigned inaugural duties will be doing on Jan. 20. "We'll use our NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] forces to increase the air-defense presence in the area," he adds. Renuart, chief of the post-9/11 U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for defending the U.S. from attack...
...Just a Deal - a New Deal Obama hasn't yet released details of his plan, so the debate has so far focused on the overall dollar amount (liberals want more, conservatives less) and general makeup (liberals want fewer tax cuts, conservatives more) rather than specific strategies for priming the pump. But the clichés are true: God - or the devil - will be in the details...