Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUMMER HEAT exceeded all expectations this year. It began as an uncomfortable nuisance in May, but it gathered strength in June and July and grew unbearably intense in August. Aides were shoved and cursed as tempers flared on the Potomac. High officials, reddening under the sun, became increasingly reluctant to leave the secluded comfort of their airconditioned offices, and recalling the last pleasant weather grew increasingly difficult...
Nothing characterizes the presidency of Richard Nixon these days so much as the sense of perpetual motion. He moves from the Oval Office in the White House to his hideaway across the street to the deck of the yacht Sequoia on the Potomac, from Washington to Key Biscayne to Grand Cay in the Bahamas, from the Camp David mountaintop to the beaches of San Clemente...
...President had spent long days in mulling over his line of attack. On Aug. 7 Nixon awoke at 2 a.m., took a notebook from his bedside table and wrote a six-page outline of the main points he wanted to make. That evening he sailed on the Potomac for two hours aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia with his favorite speechwriter, Raymond Price. The following day he asked his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged...
There is no personality or cause larger than themselves to hold the Nixon Administration together. It lies exhausted, humiliated and frightened beside the Potomac, a fragmented landscape of individual baronies, each building its own ramparts and reordering its own life. Perhaps the President can put it back together, but the task is immense...
Other U.S. victories were posted by the Northeastern University Rowing Assoc. four with coxswain which won at Nottingham in the Prince Philip Challenge Cup, and by a Potomac Boat Club pair in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls Cup Final...