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Production Peril: Queen Elizabeth II’s 1976 State Visit

Production Peril: Queen Elizabeth II’s 1976 State Visit

07/11/2016 in DC by Lafayette Matthews

The year was 1976: America's bicentennial. To celebrate, President Ford invited Queen Elizabeth II to a state dinner at the White House. A certain local public television station took on the ambitious task of live broadcasting the event, but didn't expect production challenges of royal proportion.

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When the White House Was in Alexandria

When the White House Was in Alexandria

05/08/2013 in Virginia by Mark Jones

Everyone knows that the President lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. But some locals may remember a time when that wasn’t the case. For ten days in August of 1974, the leader of the free world lived in a relatively modest red brick and white clapboard house in Alexandria, Virginia and commuted to the Oval Office each morning. Life changed pretty quickly for Gerald Ford that summer.

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