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...Nixon's movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether the Navy could not give him another berth for his boat. David sought to calm him. He told...
...available to them. Those around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase and did not unpack it for three days and nights. He stayed right there working round the clock on a program...
...Burns and McCracken were there; so were Shultz and his deputy, Caspar Weinburger, and the two Teutons who guard Nixon's gates, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Peter Peterson, a presidential aide for international economic affairs, joined the sessions. Volcker and Speechwriter Bill Safire sneaked across Washington to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where they boarded a helicopter for Camp David. John Connally, who had no way of knowing that the pressure on the dollar would propel him into prominence so soon, had just gone to his Texas ranch for a vacation. He jetted hastily back, and when the first...
Civil rights lawyers have already filed a new suit which seems certain to be bolstered by Shaw; it attacks all sorts of alleged inequalities (overcrowded schools, unfair zoning, sparse middle-income housing) in the Anacostia area of Washington, D.C. If that suit prevails, U.S. cities may face drastic changes. In light of Shaw and its emerging descendants, it is clear that American courts remain a powerful forum for battling race prejudice...
Most successful in this field is Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C., launched nine months ago under Smithsonian auspices and currently supported largely from local donations. It has drawn more than 40,000 visitors, with shows of African artifacts and craftwork borrowed from local embassies and even an African food fair. "This place," says Director John Kinard, 30, a native of Washington's inner city, "has brought people who wouldn't otherwise be caught dead in a museum." Shows are often scheduled on the basis of requests found in the suggestion box, giving local residents, as Kinard points...