cold war

Fort Reno's Continuity of Government Tower

Fort Reno's Continuity of Government Tower

Cold War tensions escalated on August 12th, 1961 as Communist soldiers sealed off West Berlin with barbed wire barricades. In Washington, construction of a different sort was also underway that day, as the White House Signal Agency moved forward with a top secret communications facility in Tenleytown.

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Riggs Bank Was "The Bank of Presidents"

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Riggs Bank Was "The Bank of Presidents"

Riggs Bank was a Washington institution for over a hundred years. More than 20 U.S. Presidents (ranging from Lincoln to Nixon) banked at Riggs, and their headquarters across the street from the Treasury Department used to be pictured on the back of the old ten dollar bill.