Word: muehlbach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driving 26 hours straight from Cambridge. It was a blazing prairie day; the streets baked, and the heat compounded my fatigue. The Republican National Convention had started that morning, and the town was swarming with conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch the Ford motorcade from the bar window...
...were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the bar. The little girl was still delivering her spiel...
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