Daily at the Mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Accessible only to guests and their friends, it offers sweeping views of the Washington Monument and Potomac River.
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Beck somehow rallied several hundred thousand people to the Washington Monument for his Restoring Honor rally this past weekend.
The monument will stand on the National Mall, the strip of parkland between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Put another way, when three blades are combined with a tower, they will eclipse the Washington Monument in height by 50%.
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Behind me, through the window, you can see the Washington Monument, visited each year by hundreds of thousands from around the world.
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Now that the carnival of sequestration blame is over we are being treated to a modified version of the Washington Monument gambit.
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Landmarks such as the Washington Monument showed up submerged in bodies of water, and big chunks of the globe appeared as roadless wastelands.
In January he announced he would donate millions to help fix the Washington Monument after it was damaged during the 5.8 magnitude earthquake.
Other notable achievements included the film "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, " where aliens slice through the Washington Monument and crash into the U.S. Capitol.
Throngs at the "Forward on Climate" rally spent several hours marching from the Washington Monument to the White House, then back to the Mall.
Four park sites have increased security since last year -- the Washington Monument, the Liberty Bell Pavilion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Gateway Arch in St.
Malfunctioning speakers made it nearly impossible for the flag-waving fans stuck in the overflow section near the Washington Monument to hear what the president was saying.
Commencement ceremonies are held at the National Mall, within sight of the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, and notable alumni include Colin Powell, Kerry Washington and Alec Baldwin.
The president now, with the debt ceiling negotiations, is playing one of the oldest and most reprehensible bureaucratic tricks in Washington: the Closing the Washington Monument maneuver.
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The Washington Monument was constructed using donations from individual Americans.
And all of them look out onto the South Lawn, and you can see the fountain, and you can see the Washington Monument, and you can see so much of Washington.
Threatening default is the Washington Monument maneuver gone thermonuclear.
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That memorial almost never came to be, or at least not in its current location nestled between the edifices that epitomized the two previous centuries: the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
No visits to the Washington Monument!
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The Washington Monument becomes an island.
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Now that the confetti has been swept from the steps of the Washington Monument and America's 43rd president is back on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, he has a fresh dilemma to confront: what to do with all the free time.
The term comes from the likelihood that whenever government shutdowns or budget cuts are threatened, the National Park Service announces it will close the Washington Monument (instead of little-used national parks) which is intended to induce disappointed tourists to deluge their congressmen and senators with complaints.
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To anyone who has been through numerous short shutdowns of government in the past, this sounds suspiciously like the "Washington Monument syndrome": the tendency of federal bureaucrats faced with budget cuts to shut down the most visible services first, causing screams and forcing the cuts to be rescinded.
Or, get street smart with a visit on 1 December to experience the majestic Washington Monument lighting.
Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man: George Washington, Father of our country.
There will be a monument erected in his honor somewhere along the pantheon of similar constructions that venerate the likes of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
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