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...Harvard's Washington insiders have quite as glamorous a job description as Nye, but most can refer more or less casually to encounters with cabinet-level officials. And all of them share the same complaints and comments about life on the Potomac versus life on the Charles...
...constant drive to do more, to get involved, to stay active, translated itself into a myriad of athletic activities for the young Burke. At West Potomac High School, she won honors running track and playing field hockey...
...worst excesses have vanished. The presidential yacht Sequoia, which Nixon's aides would take down the Potomac but abandon in favor of a helicopter for the trip back, has been sold. But don't look for many bus trips. The President took his victory lap on Air Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal...
...president-elect arrived in town on Sunday,after traveling from Thomas Jefferson's Monticellohome to the Abraham Lincoln Memorial--stopping forchurch services and to ring a replica of theLiberty Bell after crossing the Potomac...
...ended not with a bang but a whimper -- Dan Quayle whimpering about Murphy Brown, Hollywood and family values. It began with Hollywood values installed on the Potomac -- Frank Sinatra, that champion of family virtue, staging an Inauguration for his old friends Ronald, Jane Wyman's ex-husband, and Nancy, the goddaughter of a famous lesbian (the silent-screen star Alla Nazimova). We have all heard that revolutions devour their own, but how could the Reagan Revolution, of all things, end in a war against Hollywood...