Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airborne caravan headed up the Potomac Valley, Ford again asked for a change in plans, to hover over Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. His aide, Jack Marsh, a Virginian and amateur historian, urged the President to swoop across the river and study Fort Washington, a stone redoubt built between 1814 and 1824 to protect the capital. As the chopper went on, Ford viewed the steeple of Christ Church where Washington had worshiped, still tall and proud along the parkway. Nearing the White House, Ford turned to his companions. "Did you get the same feeling as I got this...
...investigation. Subject: the possible misuse of public funds for sex by Congressmen and Senators. Gray retired from Congress in 1974 after suffering a heart attack. A married man, he was famed on Capitol Hill for his assortment of girls. He also kept a 55-ft. houseboat on the Potomac River for the use of business and congressional colleagues who could be helpful to him. Unknown to Gray, the FBI kept watch on the houseboat hanky-panky for more than a year. It is some solace to the Democrats that Gray is said to be naming swinging Republicans as well...
Gray, who kept a 55-ft. yacht on the Potomac and was known for the comely women who partied on it, recalls the sequence differently. He claims she called him and was "kind of crying," pleading for work. He made her his receptionist. Says he: "She made all my appointments and typed letters into the thousands." But she typed so slowly, she insists, that other secretaries had to finish her letters. "I could never learn the keyboard," she says. To Gray, Liz was "an exhibitionist. She'd call up at midnight and say she was going to kill herself...
Where are they planning to move the national capital? Many places are being urged, including Philadelphia, Peach Bottom, Pa., and even some empty farm lands along the Potomac...
Norbert Y. Zucker Potomac...