Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every successful Senator and Representative faces the Potomac paradox: seniority breeds power and prestige, but its responsibilities can also alienate an incumbent from the voters back home...
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 30--Resurrection City is gone now. Last Monday it nearly cost Washington a riot to get rid of it, but it is gone. And West Potomac Park, rich with mud and rubble, is West Potomac Park again...
Since the death of the City, SCLC has been focusing on organizing the poor. The center of operations has shifted from West Potomac Park to 14th and U streets, the core of the ghetto, where the April riot began. The poor people's campaign is not over...
Long after nightfall, it arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps...
...lobbying for people who have never had a lobby. It is an experiment and a discovery. But so far, after a week and a half in West Potomac Park, it has also been a failure. And it has failed for ancient reasons. The campaign simply lacks the money, the leadership, and the talent to play the game, and few people in Washington are going to help it play...