Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he lived in Washington, Rhee spent most of his leisure time outdoors. He took great pleasure in mowing his lawn, spent many a Sunday afternoon in a rented rowboat fishing the Potomac. Aside from an occasional game of tennis with his wife, his only active sport was croquet, also a favorite game of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had so stubbornly ignored the claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique...
...generals shared a widespread Northern belief that Union armies should confine themselves to defending Northern territory. Lincoln was dismayed first by the delaying tactics of General George McClellan, later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip safely across the Potomac River after Gettysburg. Said Lincoln of Meade's performance: "I'll be hanged if I could think of anything but an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek...
...dusk on June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee knew that his first major attack had ended in failure. Before him on the fields near Mechanicsville, Va. lay nearly 1,500 Confederate dead and wounded. McClellan's Army of the Potomac (casualties: 256) still stood intact, a menace to Richmond...
...week's end, the President boarded the Williamsburg for a cruise down the Potomac, a one-day pause in his steady, and increasingly grim, preoccupation with his job. He was in touch, by radio, with the news from Korea, also increasingly grim. The current was carrying him on. It seemed only a question of time before President Truman would have to take stouter action. The nation's preparations, as Bernard Baruch had well said, had to be keyed to the worst possibilities of Russian behavior, not to the least dislocation of the U.S. economy...
Boarding the gleaming white presidential yacht Williamsburg, the nation's No. 1 hired man took a leisurely overnight cruise down the Potomac to Quantico, Va., with the ship hardly moving faster than the current, which suited the poker players in the presidential quarters fine. "I could have walked down faster," groused a Secret Sendee...