Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORD'S Rotunda is several city blocks long and, usually, so is the line waiting to see the show. Fords-new ones, old ones, open tops and sports models-are all over the place, even take the fairgoers through "the world that...
Democrats practically went through the rotunda at that, particularly Washington's Warren ("Maggie") Magnuson. Noting that some of the Senators sponsoring the resolution were up for reelection, he snorted: "I am sure they do not run their campaigns on hot air. They might, but I feel certain they do not." Replied Williams: "The Senator from Washington has a great voice. But he reminds me of my favorite animal when I was a boy on the farm. I always refer to my good friend from Washington as 'Maggie.' That was the name I gave to my old friend...
...hour. Next morning, a cortege placed the plain, steel Army casket aboard a train that took MacArthur, his widow Jean and son Arthur, 26, to Washington. It was raining as the procession headed slowly toward the Capitol, but tens of thousands lined the streets. In the rotunda President Johnson, his face working with emotion, placed a wreath at the casket's head. A dirge sounded as a military honor guard took its post...
...mother was born. There, city fathers had restored a 114-year-old former courthouse and designated it the MacArthur Memorial. The walls were inscribed with passages from famed MacArthur speeches. Family and friends watched in silence as the casket was slowly placed in the cool crypt beneath the rotunda. And then the tomb was sealed...
Front & Center. On Monday, sunlight splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...