Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Accepted the credentials of new Ethiopian Ambassador Teshome Haile Marriam, later cruised down the Potomac with Marriam and 34 other ambassadors. An uninvited guest was New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who hustled aboard at the last minute thinking that he was joining another party. Said Lyndon: "You're my favorite stowaway...
United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther proudly announced that he and his neighbors in Detroit suburbs would plant 5,000 trees along a barren 25-mile creek bed. Three hundred volunteers waded into the polluted Potomac River one Sunday morning and dragged up 540 armloads of rubbish. Columnist Drew Pearson donated ten tons of manure from his Maryland dairy farm to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign for new plantings in Washington...
...rivers system." The time has come, he said, "to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory." The President also put his weight behind efforts to clear Washington's own river, the Potomac, of unsightly debris-such as the rusty aquatic junkyard of gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached the point where effective authority is required to prevent it at its source, rather than rely on palliative...
...made, and Soprano Leontyne Price sang America, the Beautiful. Humphrey, visibly nervous, was sworn in by House Speaker John McCormack, who now, after 14 months, was relieved of his interim role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before Chief Justice Earl Warren. Across the Potomac, cannon boomed a 21-gun salute. Lady Bird, gazing steadily into Lyndon's eyes, stood between the two men, holding the Johnson family Bible. After repeating the first phrase of his oath, Lyndon realized that he had forgotten to put one hand on the Bible and raise the other...
Approached by a circular walkway, the tomb rises a few steps above an elliptical plaza, completing a 1.3-mile axis with the large Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac. The graves, including those of his two dead infants, are marked by flat slate stones set in a grassy plot bordered by a low plinth, where the eternal flame, cupped in a modern version of a classic oil lamp, will continue to burn. Behind it, but subordinate to the classic-revival facade of the historic Custis-Lee Mansion atop the slope, is a low, short wall, flanked by flowering magnolias, which will...