Mr. Washington Goes to New York

Part Ten of an Occasional Speculation

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Washington departed Washington for New York on the Amtrak regional with no small amount of trepidation. The City had been the site of his most humiliating defeat back in ’76. That it had been chosen to house the Democratic National Convention in 2028 struck him as ominous.