Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head up to Georgetown, then keep on going, down to the Potomac and Fletcher's Boathouse. Rent a canoe, and paddle out with your lunch and The Post to one of the Three Sisters' Islands. From there, you might wallow in your tranquility by watching the traffic snarl on Key Bridge a quarter of a mile away--too far to be heard or smelt, but close enough to enjoy...
Citizen Hughes contains plenty of grist for a Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four...
Sullivan was an ally of Perle's in the bureaucratic struggle, but he was on the wrong side of the Potomac. He ran afoul of colleagues in ACDA and State when he tried to get the Administration to sanction what one official recalls as "a laundry list of every Soviet misdeed since the birth of Lenin, all of them branded as arms-control violations." He was fired from ACDA in. March 1981 but has remained an active, though largely invisible, protagonist in the battle over arms control as an adviser to three conservative Republican Senators: James McClure and Steven...
...warfare against any plan for accomodation with the Soviets. Unless he and his patron, the Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, can be forced from office, moderates in the Administration will scarcely have time to think of possible agreements, because they will be too busy lobbing mortar over the Potomac...
...West and became almost accusatory in her professed bafflement over why they preferred Reagan. Ferraro's tone suggested that she viewed her listeners as hapless innocents beguiled by a pitchman into breaking their longstanding contract with the Democrats. Ferraro had discovered the world beyond the Hudson and Potomac rivers...