Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops on call, and the preventative sweep by police at the campsite in West Potomac Park, and the mass arrests on Monday of anyone who might have become a participant in a developing crisis confrontation...
...represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill authorizing such a center 13 years ago. The President's men mingled with their predecessors in the cavernous riverside foyer, which is longer than two football fields. As fireworks burst across the Potomac, an old Kennedy friend observed: "The embers are falling on Arlington Cemetery...
...beginning of the week, Mayday volunteers were camped in West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial. Many came only for a rock festival and would have been, at most, passive onlookers at the closing down of "the war machine." The Justice Department and Washington Police Chief, Jerry V. Wilson, fearing that the force of 50,000 could indeed paralyze the city, hit upon a brilliant maneuver. At 6:30 a.m., Wilson's police quietly moved into "Algonquin Peace City," revoked the campers' permit, disconnected the all-important loudspeaker and sent the kids scattering. Many simply left town; others...
...deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops on call, and the preventative sweep by police at the campsite in West Potomac Park, and the mass arrests on Monday of anyone who might have become a participant in a developing crisis confrontation...
...Monday morning, there was a mood of togetherness and common purpose among the demonstrators, and they rushed off to get arrested pretty joyfully. The Mayday people made the effort to talk to the police who "captured" them. I remember standing for four hours on the banks of the Potomac (forty police were guarding twenty-five of us) and laughing, staging guerrilla theater, joking with police, throwing donuts to passing motorists. We did calisthenties, and tried to have one-to-one raps with police. Most of us had discarded the V-sign around the time of the McCarthy campaign...