Word: potomac
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Linking North & South. Some lines prosper because of quirks of nature or of men. The biggest, busiest and most profitable of the bridge roads is the 129-year-old Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, whose 117-mile main line between Washington and Richmond-protected from competition in earlier decades by its part-owner, the state of Virginia-is still the only coastal link between North and South. All North-South traffic takes the R.F. & P.; over it daily thunder 23 passenger trains and ten freights bound from one to another of the six Class I roads (the Pennsy, the Southern...
...memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote a letter to congressional leaders supporting a joint resolution to name the proposed National Cultural Center after J.F.K. He motored across the Potomac to address top Pentagon staffers on the virtues of cutting costs (see following story), breakfasted on tea and Spanish melon with congressional leaders to drive home the point that Defense Department expenditures had to be trimmed...
...third floor are four more bed rooms and two baths. The front steps are flanked by a pair of 40-ft. magnolia trees nearly as old as the house. Out back is a flagstone terrace. On top of the house perches a cupola with a view of the Potomac. The house went on the market a year ago for $325,000, recently came down to around $190,000. Jackie reportedly got it for a few thou sand dollars less. "Let's just say we didn't want to make it difficult for her," says the former owner, Estate...
...around Washington, sockless and absurd, he announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington jail to check on its comforts. "Very excellent," he decided...
When Garfield entered Washington's Baltimore & Potomac railway station at 9:20 a.m., July 2, 1881, on his way to a two-week vacation in the North, Guiteau stepped from behind a bench, walked within a few feet of the President and shot him in the back. "My God, what is this!" Garfield cried, toppling forward. Guiteau was captured immediately. He pleaded insanity of the "Abrahamic" variety-like Abraham in murderous pursuit of Isaac, he was in the command of a wrathful God "Let your verdict be that it was the Deity's act not mine," he told...