Word: wiliiamsburg
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...tucked into one wing of Versailles, the site of last year's meeting. Marble, granite and gold gave way to wood, brick and pewter. Vistas of canals and cobbled courtyards yielded to intimate gardens of a few square yards and dusty streets that could be walked in minutes. Wiliiamsburg is a reminder of the limits of government and the power of freedom...
...matter how intractable their problems seemed - and in deed high interest rates and the too strong dollar defy ready solution - these special visitors did not need to go home emptyhanded. Wiliiamsburg, after all, was a gathering place of ideas that shaped America and influenced the world. And for men and women who care to look and listen, great thoughts renew themselves in the modest homes, the taverns and the government buildings...
...Wiliiamsburg, George Washington nurtured his friendships with Virginia's revolutionary leaders, and took military commissions that sent him to the frontier in the French and Indian War. Did Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, beset by European complaints about burgeoning U.S. deficits, know that his earliest counterpart, Alexander Hamilton, commanded the bayonet attack on the British redoubts at Yorktown, only 13 miles from Wiliiamsburg, in the decisive battle of the Revolution...
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