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		<title>District of Columbia Joins States with Statue Representative in Capitol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia may not have a vote in Congress, but as of today it at least has a statue in the Capitol. For years, the legislature barred the District of Columbia from joining the states in placing statue representatives in the Capitol. No longer—today a sculpted likeness of Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave turned famous orator, will take its place among the hundred other state-donated statues dispersed throughout the Capitol. After the statue cleared final legislative hurdles in May, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D – D.C.) said in a statement: There is no better figure to represent our city than Frederick Douglass, who made the city his home and was deeply involved in D.C. government and in the civic affairs of the city. Douglass is not only one of the great international icons of human rights, he is remembered in the District also for his outspoken dedication to democratic self-government and congressional representation for the city. Douglass served D. C. as a U.S. marshal and a Recorder of Deeds in the years following Reconstruction. He died in Washington on February 20, 1895. Watch the live dedication ceremony here at 11 AM ET. Fun facts about Frederick Douglass: Douglass, raised Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, never knew his exact date of birth and chose February 14th, 1818 as an adult. His mother Harriet Bailey was a slave, and all he knew of his father was that he was white. When he was 8 years old, Douglass was sold to the family of Hugh Auld in Baltimore, Maryland. Auld&#8217;s wife, Sophia, consciously broke state law when she decided to teach Douglass how to read. After being rebuked by her husband, who thought that slaves who knew how to read were dangerously prone to insurrection, Sophia stopped her lessons. Douglass continued to read newspapers, books, and political material in secret. He later cited The Columbian Orator as a heavy influence on his earliest opinions about human rights. In 1838, after a number of different masters in the Chesapeake area, Douglass completed a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=98208&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Liberace Do DC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberace, that is, the Steven Soderbergh biopic, Behind the Candelabra, scored big for HBO this weekend, attracting 3.5 million viewers for it’s two consecutive screenings on Sunday, making it the most-watched HBO movie since Something the Lord Made in 2004. We at the Swamp wondered if there was some untapped material from inside the Beltway that might have been overlooked by the filmmakers. We found that “Lee” did meet a few presidents in his time, and may have embellished the stories a bit in his autobiography.  And there was even a very short-lived Washington scandal. Liberace wrote in The Wonderful Private World of Liberace,that he met “three of our greatest presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan.”  And he claims that, “the very first time I was invited to play at the White House was for President Truman.” We hate to quibble, but contrary to his recounting, the historical record makes it seem unlikely that he ever performed in the Truman White House. An authoritative book on musical performances at the executive mansion by Elise K. Kirk, Music at the White House, says the White House was inundated with requests from fans and fan clubs that Liberace be invited to perform.  However, Kirk confirmed to TIME that she encountered no evidence of a White House performance. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum also failed to find documents that confirmed the story, and while they don’t completely rule out the possibility, the archivist says that it’s highly unlikely since there would certainly be some record such as the invitation, acceptance, arrangements, schedules, press accounts, etc. In addition, Randy Sowell, archivist of the Truman Library says the White House underwent a major renovation from late-1948 until early 1952 and “no social events could be held there during that period.”  President Truman was president from 1945 to January 1953. Liberace certainly did meet President Truman, himself a fairly accomplished pianist, in 1950 at the White House News Photographers Association dinner. That dinner, however, was held at the Statler Hotel near the White House.  President Truman was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=96618&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217; Filmmakers Defend Their Story of Osama at the D.C. Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s account of the Osama bin Laden hunt, has been causing drama on Capitol Hill. The latest scene took place Tuesday at the Washington, D.C., premiere, when director Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and former Senator Chris Dodd tried to quash criticisms from lawmakers who say that the movie miscasts history&#8211;particularly the role &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; played in leading to bin Laden&#8217;s death. The film opens with scenes depicting waterboarding and ends with the Navy SEALs&#8216; dramatic, successful raid on a certain Pakistan compound. Last month Senators from both parties&#8211;John McCain, Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin&#8211;sent a letter to acting CIA director Mike Morell requesting details about the CIA&#8217;s involvement in informing the plot, which they believe gives too much credit to such practices. Two days later, Morell posted a statement to CIA employees on the agency&#8217;s website: he said any impression that &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; were &#8220;the key&#8221; to finding bin Laden is false but also noted that some intelligence used to place bin Laden in Abbottobad &#8220;came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques.&#8221; His statement only led to renewed calls from the Senators for more clarity from the CIA, while many more Congresspeople offered their own moral and historical beliefs. On Tuesday night, Bigelow emphasized the fictional bent of her practice. Taking questions on the red carpet, she repeatedly told reporters that her film is &#8220;not a documentary.&#8221; In a statement she read to the audience before the film showed, she acknowledged the &#8220;national conversation&#8221; that the film had started and emphasized that she &#8220;tried to bring this story to the screen in a faithful way.&#8221; Even so, she argued, all the relevant details spanning the decade between the 9/11 attacks and bin Laden&#8217;s death were likely known to no one. Boal doubled down on the artistic-license defense in a live Q&#38;A with ABC News&#8217; Martha Raddatz after the film. &#8220;The research was over there in a pile, and I had to write a screenplay, make a movie,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The goal was to capture<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=84484&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dominique Strauss-Kahn&#8217;s Long Shadow in Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 04:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s some 250 miles from 2613 Dumbarton Street in a quiet corner of Georgetown to the cell blocks at Riker’s Island in New York City, but the psychic distance is much greater. One of the stately Georgian mansions that provide unusual space and privacy in the wealthy Washington neighborhood, Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s brick house, valued at $3.8 million, has a large yard and a professionally tended garden. Nearby, tennis courts and parks provided even more peace for the high-powered head of the International Monetary Fund when he would return from the organization&#8217;s office just off Pennsylvania Ave. Now, on Rikers Island, Strauss-Kahn finds himself in a 11 foot by 13 foot cell. At meal times, he relies on staples such as white bread and turkey burgers. But it is not just material differences that produce the starkness of the DSK case. The true cognitive dissonance comes from the contrast between the baseness of the allegations against him and his stature in Washington. Because by all accounts, DSK is not merely the head of a powerful organization, he was its exceptionally talented leader who brought it from increasing irrelevance four years ago to a crucial position in the international system today. Before the global financial crisis of 2008, the IMF was fading fast. There was talk inside the building of closing the European department — what need was there for Cold War-era macroeconomic oversight or safety nets in the age of the Euro and ever expanding wealth in western and central Europe? When the financial crisis hit, DSK saw an opportunity to advance both the IMF&#8217;s institutional relevance and his Keynsian economic outlook. And George W. Bush’s decision to bring the crisis under the purview of the G-20 created DSK’s first opportunity. The G-7 was always a small enough group with sufficiently common interests that it would sort out policy on its own. DSK saw that the G-20, with its representation of powerful emerging markets from Asia and Latin America, would need an interlocutor to help its members reach agreement, and he<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=48240&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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