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Before November 1800, however, even though work was under way on the Capitol, there was yet little sense of a Federal City. The only evidence of habitation was about 600 modest houses strewn across the marshy but beautiful landscape, which had inspired L'Enfant as he worked at his drawing board in a dim room in Suter's Fountain Inn in Georgetown. The unlikely figure of Adams, embodying the presidency, would bring the spark of life to the new city simply by taking up residence in the house. And though the President's House still stood mostly silent and dark...
Redoubtable First Lady Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced...
This would, I am certain, almost definitely work if it were not for one slight problem--residence. Gore would get to live in Washington D.C. in the White House, since he got Washington's three electoral votes and Bush would--what? Build a second capitol in the Midwest? This would take too much time and effort. Dividing up the states like pieces of Halloween candy would not work so well...
...morning, there's a formal introduction, and all the electors are brought in alphabetically. Then at noon, the secretary of state formally calls electoral college to order. After that, the electors have a roll call and pose for a group photograph. Then everyone has lunch in the capitol, and at 1:30 they reconvene for vote...
...Thursday more than 300 African-American students from nearby Florida A&M University came to the capitol in Tallahassee and staged a sit-in, demanding to see Jeb Bush and state attorney general Butterworth. But by this time frustrated Republicans were getting snippy too. That afternoon scores of counter-protesters arrived at the same site wearing Bush-Cheney T-shirts, shouting down pro-Gore demonstrators on the capitol plaza and waving signs that read "My grandmother can vote correctly... why can't yours...