Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bitten by Potomac fever, many are trying to stay in Washington. John Marsh, Ford's White House Counsellor, and ex-Transportation Secretary William Coleman will practice law in the capital. Ending a 25-year career in the Foreign Service, Kremlinologist Helmut Sonnenfeldt will teach at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies...
...workaholic society Harry Truman would have been a flake. Right in the middle of rebuilding the world after World War II, he used to insist on interludes with his neighbors from Independence, Mo., poker games on his yacht on the Potomac and hours of inexpert splashing around in the warm waters of Key West. He was a successful President...
...James Whitmore in Bully!, a roaring portrayal of Teddy Roosevelt. It might help when he gets there if Carter recalls that sometimes, when the sun was up and his juices were flowing, Roosevelt would knock off work at noon and take his family for a picnic down along the Potomac River. It might not be quite as good as a tax cut, but the therapeutic value to the national soul has been underestimated since about...
...written by one of the missing, Reeves. Brady asked him if he could use the story. Reeves refused. After a frantic search, Brady settled on a piece by Syndicated Columnist Nick Thimmesch, describing how John Ehrlichman spent his last days before jail, which had already run in part in Potomac, the Washington Post's Sunday supplement...
...alert people watchers might even have caught sight of Ted Sorensen-lean, cerebral, ascetic-moving mysteriously through the Potomac power basin toward his new headquarters at the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Kennedy intellectual left Washington in 1964-lean, cerebral, ascetic...