Much of the first ten years of my life was spent on a hill above Broad Branch Road—the branch being Rock Creek itself
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In the crash of 1929, Gore lost most of his money; in 1930 he returned to the Senate. Predictably
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I was ten when he was defeated in the Democratic primary. He was melancholy, to say the least, and somewhat bored during the last thirteen years of his life, practicing law in Washington as attorney for the Apache, Comanche, and Kiowa tribes whose lands had been stolen by the federal government. In 1984, thirty-five years after his death, he won a great posthumous victory when the tribes got a good chunk of the money owed them.
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Rock Creek Park was very much my territory. The house itself was gray-yellow Baltimore stone. On one side, there was a steep lawn that over-looked Broad Branch Road and the winding creek while on the other side, there was the front door, approached by a circular drive at whose center was a small fountain. In those days, from the house
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The main hall always smells of fried bacon, floor wax, irises
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