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Capital Dc Image

Capital Dc Image

It’s hard enough growing up without your home town being called names like; abhorrent, abomination, accursed, banished, cursed, censured, condemned, cursed, damned, denounced, detested, disliked, and exiled – whew, just to name a few. Okay, I’ll admit it, it also has had, albeit far fewer, nicer nicknames, such as; Capital City, Capital of America, Capital of the Republic, Capital of the World, etc..

The truth is that Washington, D.C. has had very little, if anything at all, to say for itself. Which is why when visiting, tourists will notice an increasing number of vehicle tags proclaiming its apropos axiom “Taxation without Representation”.

Old School

Brownnosing had its beginnings in American politics as soon as it was announced that a commission was to be formed for the creation of the new capital of the former colonies along with a competition to be held for the design of the President’s working residence. Where architect James Hoban won the contest, fair and square, to lay out the White House, it was anything but amicable between engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant and surveyor Andrew Ellicott. The surveyor won President Washington’s favor and to the engineer’s chagrin, Ellicott used L’Enfant’s plans to continue the construction of the federal district that Congress had chosen as the seat of the country’s government.