Volume 33, Number 9 · May 29, 1986
In Washington
By Alfred Kazin
On December 12, 1985, the President of the United States, returning from his summit meeting in Geneva with Soviet leader Gorbachev, went straight from the airfield to report to Congress. His helicopter was bathed in a corolla of many-colored spotlights as it swooped down upon what the designer of Washington, Pierre L'Enfant, in his plan for the capital, knew as Jenkin's Hill.
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