Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic presidential candidates who have tried to make Washington an election issue. Said he: "The issue is not Washington, not Big Government, but the people in the Government. When we put a new man in the White House, there is going to be the biggest exodus across the Potomac since Moses led his people across...
Early last Thursday morning, freight train B-6 from Enola, Pa., rumbled through a steady drizzle into position at the big Potomac switching yard south of Washington. "Just another working day," said Conductor Carroll Dikeman as he headed home. Well, not quite. Train B-6-along with nearly half of the other trains and 17,000 miles of track in 16 Northeastern and Midwestern states-had just become the property of the Consolidated Rail Corp., a Government-sponsored private company. ConRail's birth marks the largest corporate reorganization ever...
Elizabeth Rowe, a former head of the National Capital Planning Commission, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, Washington's oldest planning group, and the Potomac chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, have joined Schenk's cause...
Haig, the White House chief of staff, instructed Presidential Aide Steve Bull to stop recording the precise times of Nixon's movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether...
...bodies to enforcement authorities along the East Coast; for almost a week they received no help. Meantime the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation managed to trace the shovel found at the murder scene by its serial number to the store where it had been bought-Poch Hardware in Potomac, Md. A flyer was left in the store with pictures of the bodies...