But an expected 40, 000 people crammed into the Washington Convention Center for those two balls, and there was still plenty of star power in the entertainment lineup.
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Inside the cavernous Washington Convention Center, spokesmodels gestured lovingly toward the shiny new cars and beckoned to the weekend crowd, car guys kicking tires, kids pretending to drive, and couples arguing over whether they needed a car or a truck.
The 18-month old, multi-million dollar American Jewish political action committee held its inaugural convention this week in Washington.
There's a C-pack or conservative pack convention being held in Washington this weekend.
After the war, when the founding fathers reassembled in Philadelphia to craft the U.S. Constitution, Washington was named president of the Constitutional Convention, and he willingly served.
Here in Washington this weekend, at the annual Convention of the American Library Association, delegates got a rare peek at the workings of a secret panel - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, which authorizes wiretaps on people in the United States.
The contest was held in the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, outside Washington.
Washington is herself very politically aware, and spoke at the recent Democratic National Convention.
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NPR's senior Washington editor Ron Elving no doubt remembers a line the Democrats used after that convention, Ron, because Republicans were saying Barry Goldwater: In your heart, you know he's right.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said phone banks encouraging Bush supporters to attend a Nader nominating convention last Saturday amounted to an illegal in-kind contribution to the Nader campaign by the Oregon Family Council and Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy.
President Bush, who is scheduled to address the convention Monday night, is making contingency plans in case the storm keeps him in Washington.
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