Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Things weren't so merry around Merrywood three years ago when Washington Stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss sold the 46-acre estate on the Potomac Palisades to a syndicate that wanted to build three 17-story apartment buildings there. Desecration! fumed Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, arguing that the hills that "Hughdee's" stepdaughter, Jackie Kennedy, had loved as a child were also one of the nation's "great scenic resources." A resourceful Interior Department headed off the deal, and now Washington Investor C. Wyatt Dickerson, who recently bought the place for $650,000, plans to turn Merrywood into...
Bullhorn Goodbye. At the airport later that night, the President announced through a bullhorn: "I have ordered the red tape cut. Our assistance will be given the highest priority." Then, after declaring Louisiana a disaster area, he headed back to the Potomac, got home...
...when Ayub Khan rode a wave of popularity through the U.S. Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he said: "The only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with the Kennedys, flew to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to write his name in fresh Friendship Walk cement. Vice President Johnson had met Ayub in Pakistan earlier that year and, in a rosy, fraternal glow, saw to it that a camel driver who reached for his outstretched...
...newest national park, Utah's Canyonlands. National Seashores have been set aside on Cape Cod, New York's Fire Island, California's Point Reyes and Texas' Padre Island. Protests from an aroused public stopped Maryland from installing a sewage disposal plant across the Potomac from Mount Vernon. Rainbow Bridge in Utah, the largest natural bridge in the world, would have had its underpinnings gnawed away by a dam-created lake had not conservationists made a case...
...there." For his part, L.B.J. must have pondered whether it was just like Jack Javits to be crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft cruised out into the middle of the Potomac, Lyndon kidded Jack about "stowing away," then piped him aboard a power launch that put him in the right boat...