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...started with the thunder of hooves. Spurred by the cavalry - 120 Akubraed riders, including Paul Hogan - the Opening Ceremonies were a rip-snorter. The set piece was wonderful, the best since that bizarre Albertville stuff in 1992. The lawn mowers and dancing boxes were a lot of fun. During the parade of nations, the crowd leapt up on three occasions: when the Koreas marched in together, when Victor Ramos of East Timor entered carrying the flag for unaffiliated Olympians (that Australia didn't intervene sooner in the Timorese tragedy represents, for many Australians, a great human rights failing) and when...
There were so many once-in-a-lifetime sights at the opening ceremony: Rupert Murdoch wearing mittens on his hands, Bill Gates waving a paper American flag, children with lawn mowers drawing Olympic rings. But the highlight was the parade of nations--and their brave fashion statements...
...home and office, part museum--it may be one reason the U.S. has been so successful. President George Bush, a dedicated family man, says when things got tense during crisis meetings in the Cabinet Room or the Oval Office, he could always glance out the windows over the South Lawn and see his grandchildren playing with his dogs or chief gardener Irv Williams digging in the flower beds or perhaps a staff member warming up on the horseshoe pits that Bush had had installed. "It made you realize what being President was all about," insists Bush...
...book on the difficult relationship between Adams and Thomas Jefferson, will deliver a brief address on the meaning of the moment. If President Bill Clinton is not out campaigning, he will add remarks for any and all citizens who want to stop by and listen from the front lawn and Lafayette Park, just like they did two centuries...
Woodrow Wilson put sheep on the White House lawn to help with the home-front effort in World War I. In 1925, Calvin Coolidge was the first to try out radio, which Franklin Roosevelt then used so effectively in his fireside chats, broadcasting from the shadowy basement room arched with stone pillars right near the Map Room, where he and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill planned the grand strategy for World...