Gerald Ford - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Gerald Ford - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 The Real Story of the Sans Souci: The Super-Exclusive DC Restaurant Where Even Mick Jagger Couldn’t Get a Table https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/07/21/sans-souci-exclusive-dc-restaurant-mick-jagger-couldnt-get-a-table/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sans-souci-exclusive-dc-restaurant-mick-jagger-couldnt-get-a-table Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:00:38 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=780101 One afternoon in 1973, Mick and Bianca Jagger decided to check out Washington’s buzziest restaurant. The couple were in town for a Senate event, and afterward they headed, as VIPs did, to the Sans Souci. The Jaggers didn’t have a reservation, however, and the jam-packed French restaurant had a strict coat-and-tie dress code. What’s more, […]

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How DC Insiders Ended up on SNL https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/04/how-dc-insiders-ended-up-on-snl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-dc-insiders-ended-up-on-snl Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:10:22 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=238419 Few thought a major political figure would ever make a cameo on the show when SNL was a new late-night oddity back in 1976. But that didn’t stop producers from asking Gerald Ford’s administration. They didn’t get the President to host, but they did get his press secretary, Ron Nessen—and from there, a precedent for […]

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“Drop Dead”: How Trump Inspired the New York Daily News to Revive Its Most Famous Headline https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/06/02/new-york-daily-news-revived-famous-headline/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-daily-news-revived-famous-headline Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:41:53 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=227930 There aren’t that many headlines that people can recall for longer than a few hours, let alone more than four decades. And the most memorable headlines tend to come from New York tabloids, such as the New York Post‘s 1983 screamer “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” The next-most-famous “wood” might be “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD,” which led the New […]

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President Ford’s Memorial Program https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/01/04/president-fords-memorial-program/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-fords-memorial-program https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/01/04/president-fords-memorial-program/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:44:11 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/1600-pennsylvania-avenue/president-fords-memorial-program.php Yesterday's service for President Gerald Ford at the National Cathedral was filled with pomp and circumstance, from the President's Own—the Marine Corps band—to memorials from Tom Brokaw, Henry Kissinger and President Bush....

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