Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...amendment is the latest in a series of efforts to win political independence for the District that was carved out of Maryland and Virginia in 1791. Only in 1961 did Washingtonians finally get the right to vote in presidential elections. In 1971 they were able to elect a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, Walter Fauntroy. In 1974 they achieved a degree of home rule with an elected mayor, Walter Washington, and a city council...
What particularly baffled and annoyed Congressmen was the timing of the White House bill. The last-minute maneuver looked as if the President were trying simply to save face-and not succeeding. The White House prevailed upon two liberal Congressmen, Joseph Fisher of Virginia and James Gorman of California, to sponsor the measure. O'Neill scarcely concealed his irritation. "If the Corman-Fisher amendment had been brought here five months ago," he said on the House floor, "it would have sailed through the House...
...Long Island, an enraged driver who thought he had been cut off smashed the offending vehicle with an ax. In a lane-changing argument . in Sacramento, a passenger in a pickup truck shot and killed the driver of the other car. After a near collision in Virginia, two drivers tried to settle matters by staging a shootout. "This is getting more common," says a Chicago Police Lieutenant. "Everybody seems to be uptight." Even some men on his own force. In the Windy City last year, two off-duty officers were fired and one was placed on probation for attacking other...
Walker easily made friends in high places. James Schlesinger, whom he met in 1959 over a bottle of bourbon at the University of Virginia, asked him to be godfather to his son. Their two families now often have weekend barbecues with House Energy Committee Chairman Thomas ("Lud") Ashley. Walker attends Mardi Gras parties in the capital each year with Louisiana Congressman Joe Waggoner and frequently calls Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long at home...