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Down on the beach with Dawson after the ceremony, Clinton stared out over the peaceful water, imagining the cauldron of 50 years ago. He bent to touch the sand, perhaps a ritual of consecration for the simple virtues that propelled those young soldiers across such a distant fire zone: beaches are for families and picnics and laughter...
...carefully orchestrated plan into a thousand extemporaneous fragments. And still, the plan worked. At Gold, Juno and Sword beaches a force drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles Dempsey's British Second Army, and including a Canadian division and Free French, Polish and Dutch troops, moved steadily onto the sand and into the countryside. On the western end at Utah Beach, the U.S. 4th Division waded ashore under protective naval fire and linked up with the paratroopers...
...single woman has a pet dog who suddenly turns into Paul Sand -- but only she can hear him talk, and he still looks like a dog to everyone else...
Picture a white-sand beach swept by a balmy breeze with nothing more pressing than whether to read a novel or visit a sugar plantation in old Barbados. The stuff of romance, yes. But in the Capitol, it is the essence of lobbying. Lobbying mixes people of the same interests and temperament, adds good food, fine wine and the occasional getaway -- and also produces relationships. And just because one of the companions always picks up the tab doesn't make the liaisons meaningless. Indeed, in most cases, the links are all too serious...
...here tonight because we're Democrats," Roosevelt said. "We care about people, but we will not stick our heads in the sand...