As mentioned, until the end of World War II, Washington saw cities as the geographies where business operated.

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But just around the time that Clinton was making this statement, Jordan's King Abdullah II was telling The Washington Post that he is satisfied with the Netanyahu government's position on the Palestinians.

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Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.

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In 1979, Pope John Paul II concluded his week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall.

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With the devastation of World Wars I and II still fresh in European minds, and the continent hardly brimming with confidence about the future, Washington signaled in 1950 that American energy and attention were switching from Europe to the Korean peninsula.

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Taylor left Washington University (without a degree) to join the Navy, and served as a fighter pilot during World War II.

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