Word: progressed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...White House is 200 years old and renewing itself every hour, a great work still in progress. On a typical morning it is a village of 6,000 busy souls: the President, butlers, gardeners, journalists, clerks, economists, cooks, cops, one dog, one cat, and guests and tourists in some kind of harmony on 18 acres...
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...
...Harry Truman. He rebuilt the White House, gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still has an original marble mantelpiece...
...would they cooperate with him? Gore is so familiar to Republican leaders that their contempt would be hard to contain; only the fear that voters would see them as enemies of progress might keep them from total war. "Whether Republicans cooperated with Al Gore would depend on which Al Gore showed up," says a Republican strategist with close ties to the party leadership. "Would it be the moderate New Democrat or the enviro-liberal? If it's the latter, he'd have real problems. Hell, he'd have real problems no matter what...
...offers a broad range of businesses and human rights groups," Ryan said. "The WRC is still a work in progress. It is not at this point a good...