Word: lincoln
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...that Washington has ever needed any patting on the dome to nourish. Growing is what the place does best. There are 298,000 federal civilian workers in the Washington area today, compared with 2,200 in Lincoln's time. These hordes are attended in various ways by lobbyists, lawyers, accountants, special interest groups, consultants and journalists, all in vast numbers. The number of lawyers alone would drive Plato to despondency. Ever since Government started going after business, business started hiring lawyers. In July 1973 there were 10,925 attorneys listed as members of the District of Columbia...
...This makes for some astonishingly boring discussions of real estate deals but also for some very pleasant living. So do the parks, like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained now for repairs) toward the Washington Monument; the monument itself, an elongated ghost, ringed by schoolchildren, peering over the city as if to check on its prosperity...
...people's affection for the city shows in more indirect circumstances still - in those quiet, unguarded moments when visitors and residents as well set aside words like access and power and amble among the monuments as subconscious patriots. Children are more demonstrative. They shout up at Lincoln's capacious ears, or take the Capitol three steps at a clip, acting as if they owned the place...
...wood lie on the steps, where workmen are hammering together the viewing stands for the Inauguration. The ceremony will be held on the west side of the building this time. When the President takes his oath of office he will be lined up with the monuments to Washington and Lincoln. After he is sworn in, he will make his way up Constitution Avenue, then veer to the right up Pennsylvania toward the house that Rear Admiral Cockburn could not obliterate...
Republican State Rep. Lincoln P. Cole Jr. was defeated by a 25-year-old liberal Democrat, Stephen W. Doran. In Springfield, liberal Democratic Rep. Richard Roche lost to Robert L. Howarth. Conservative Rep. Charles R. Doyle of Boston defeated Robert Godino, running as an Independent, by 170 votes...