Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been suggested that the real purpose of the screen is to secure the President against shore breezes); $9,910 to "remove dry weeds to eliminate fire hazards"; $1,853 for a flag pole and $476 to paint it; $1,105 to clean the beach; $76,000 for landscaping and lawn sprinklers, and another $25,524 for "landscape maintenance...
Brezhnev's eight-day visit-the first by a Soviet leader since Nikita Khrushchev was the guest of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959*-officially began on Monday with ceremonies on the White House lawn. The scheduled program...
...Potomac River with only one aide. He went to Camp David alone on a rainy night. His lone excursion into the public domain was to the deck of an aircraft carrier, safe from doubters. The biggest White House event of the week was the dinner on the South Lawn for the P.O.W.s, a reassuring evening of mutual tribute to the old days of courage...
...huge yellow-and-orange tent was set up on the White House lawn to accommodate more than 1,280 guests at 128 tables. White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne. Chef Henry Haller borrowed a huge blender from the Pentagon to purée 90 quarts of strawberries for the dessert. Two hundred extra butlers were recruited to help serve a feast that began with suprême of seafood Neptune (crabmeat, tiny shrimps and scallops in sauce) served with hearts of palm and proceeded, with...
...former P.O.W.s, along with their wives and friends and one Playboy Playmate, the occasion was one of joy that not even a downpour could diminish. Most of them squished happily through the bog that had once been the White House lawn. One veteran of a Viet Nam prison remarked, "It's not the first time I've sat in the mud to eat, but at least this time I have a chair...