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Article: White House event honored Adams
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- November 8, 2000
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IF you like fine prose, the South Lawn was definitely the place
for you last Wednesday noon. Silver-haired David McCullough,
historian and biographer, delivered a speech that would have made
you weep with its felicities. The weather was also superb: a
cloudless cobalt sky, the sun glancing off the instruments of the
Army's Fife and Drum Corps and the harnesses of the four white
horses that pulled an open carriage up to the back entrance of the
White House.
The occasion was the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the
first master of the White House, John Adams of Massachusetts. The
passenger in the carriage, a stocky Park Service employee who was
impersonating Adams, wore a cocked hat and ...