George Washington was the first president to place his hand on a Christian Bible when taking the oath of office.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

George Washington was a military hero. So was the 7th president, Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1829.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

A ticket to ride the train from Chicago to Seattle,Washington was fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

David Wasserman from the Cook Political Report in Washington was a guest on VOA's "Encounter" program.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

They were as close to hostilities as Washington was with the Nazi government in Berlin.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

They fired cannons as the city of Washington was waking to a new day.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Before then, the largest crowd ever in Washington was 1,200,000 people.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Washington was not strongly defended.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Economist Rebecca Blank with the Brookings Institution here in Washington was optimistic that positive results will come from efforts to prevent more job losses and mortgage defaults.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

The last time the leaders of the three countries met, in 2006, their summit in Washington was overshadowed by bickering over who was to blame for the Taliban's growing strength.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

When the agreement was completed, Sherman sent it immediately to Washington for approval by the new president, Andrew Johnson.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The ceremony was held at the place where a monument to America's first president, George Washington, was being built.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In Washington, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the problem was not getting enough supplies to Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

As he got closer to Washington, he was warned that a mob was planning to attack the train.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

He says the display was designed to look like a map of the local Washington Metro train system instead of a tree.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Aniekan Udofia was born in Washington to Nigerian parents who were studying at universities in the city.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The man who shot James Garfield -- Charles Guiteau -- was tried by a court in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

We attended one that was taught by a graduate student from George Washington University's Forensic Science Department.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The Senate confirmed him in May. Formerly,he was the police chief in Seattle,Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.10.11