When the First Session of the United States Congress convened in Washington, D.C., on November 17, 1800, something far greater than a routine legislative gathering took place. It was a moment when an idea became a reality, when a theoretical capital—sketched on maps, debated in halls, argued over in newspapers, and surveyed in muddy fields—suddenly …
June 17, 1972, was a warm, uneventful Saturday in Washington, D.C., the kind of summer day that hums with the usual rhythm of a capital city. People were going about their weekend routines, unaware that within the walls of a sleek, modern building known as the Watergate complex, a political earthquake was about to detonate. …
