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Article: Pennsylvania Avenue has become an empty six-lane monument to fear.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 21, 1996
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WASHINGTON _ Once greatness passed here.
You can stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House and hear the ghosts _ shuffling feet of victorious armies from the Civil War, World I and II, tootling bands parading for newly minted presidents.
Now there's weird silence on America's Main Street.
Decorate it with junked cars and graffiti, it would look like the parking lot of an abandoned supermarket.
One year ago, unnerved by a plane crash on the White House back yard, a kook's bullets splattering walls and the Oklahoma City bombing, the Secret Service advised President Clinton to shut down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of his house. He ...