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...respectfully decline TIME's Person of the Year distinction. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I don't want to be chosen by any magazine that would select me as its most newsworthy person. BILL EISEMAN Virginia Beach, Va...
...little pointedly, "There aren't going to be any more private services in the East Room for a select few." During his first Sunday as President, Ford and his wife went to the same church they had attended for more than 20 years: Immanuel-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Va...
...CLAY, director of the library system in Fairfax County, Va., about the threat to remove thousands of books from its 21 libraries, including classics like Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because they haven't been checked out in two years...
...face of it, the Washington Capital Area Historical Autograph and Manuscript Show seemed like many such shows held around the country each year. Some 20 top dealers gathered at an Alexandria, Va., hotel on Dec. 9 to peddle thousands of autographs, letters and official papers of the famous - many of the more expensive items locked in glass cases. But among the customers wandering through the exhibits this time were two investigators from the National Archives. They passed out brochures on how to spot historical documents stolen from the government and chatted with the dealers to let them know that...
...material never got to the Archives in the first place. Presidential signatures can command high prices but often they're on documents of no historical significance. "Not every letter that George Washington wrote deserves to be in the National Archives," says Edward Bomsey, an autographs dealer in Annandale, Va. The Archives also doesn't have the right to material that is considered private property, such as Presidential letters to constituents...