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| Title: | Open Letter to President and Congress urging passage of Eisenhower Civic Center bill |
| Author: | The Greater Washington Board of Trade |
| Date: | 8/15/1972 |
Document Information
Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | The Greater Washington Board of Trade |
| Title: | Open Letter to President and Congress urging passage of Eisenhower Civic Center bill |
| Date: | 8/15/1972 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| Collection name: | the Greater Washington Board |
| Document location: | Box 238, folder 18, item 1 |
| Publication location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Publisher: | The Washington Star |
Descriptive Metadata
| Editorial notes: | |
| Description: | As debate begin to heat up over the spring and summer of 1972 over H.R. 16261, the Washington Board of Trade placed this open letter to President Nixon and the Congress as a full page ad. It ran in both The Washington Star and The Washington Post. This image is from The Washington Star. The open letter states a small litany of reasons why the President and the Congress should support the bill and construction of the Civic Center. |
| Subjects: | the Greater Washington Board of Trade;; Richard Nixon;; urban planning;; Washington, D.C.;; Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial Civic Center;; NHL hockey;; NBA basketball;; 20th Century Washington D.C.;; Washington D.C. government |
Technical Metadata
| Date scanned: | 3/6/2006 |
| Person scanning: | Craig Clarke |
| Date converted: | 3/6/2006 |
| Person converting: | Craig Clarke |
| Scanner used: | EPSON Expression 10000 XL |
| OCR program: | PixEdit 7 Rev. 7.3.6 |
| Technical notes: | The image from the otherside of the ad bleeds through on the scan |