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...wave of assassinations in Europe in 1817 prompted James Monroe to put sharpshooters on the rebuilt White House. The Confederate strategists had in mind capturing the White House with Abraham Lincoln inside, maybe having a mint julep on the porch. In the chaotic months after the Civil War the Army Engineers, who literally ran the Capital city, declared the White House a relic and wanted to move it to the more secure hills of Washington's Rockcreek Park. Ulysses Grant, realizing that the White House now was imbued with Lincoln's great mystique, stopped that...
Wednesday morning, Mary Jo Clark runs a daycare center out of her 32 Crescent Street home. Plastic play structures and baby strollers litter the front yard and porch. At 8:15 a.m., two children have already been dropped off to spend their day with Clark. The little girl sits on Clark’s lap and giggles at Sadie, the golden retriever, while the little boy plays with trains under a table...
...them sleep on bunks spread between two rooms. They don’t have much in the way of closets or drawers for storage, but that’s okay, since they don’t have much in the way of stuff to store. Their sun porch is a hanging forest of drying clothes, basically whatever they’re not wearing at the time, which they wash in plastic tubs in their bathroom. Nowhere in sight are a TV or phone, and hot water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub...
...sweat-soaked Mark Kennedy Shriver trots up to yet another front porch in suburban Maryland, he admonishes a reporter not to step on the grass. When someone opens a door, he begins, "Sorry to bother you..." And when someone doesn't open one, he scribbles a note on one of his campaign flyers: "Sorry to have missed you..." Mark has met lots of mean dogs this way, and one mean homeowner with a handgun. "You related to Maria Shriver?" the man demanded. Mark put his hands up and said, "Depends...
...however, was in evidence Friday afternoon at the Condit family's Modesto-area home, where an American flag hung from the front porch and the only message to passersby was a vividly colored sign: NO TRESPASSING. For Gary Condit, it's far too late to hope for that...