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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can`t Swim".

- Quentin Crisp

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can`t Swim".

- Lyndon Johnson

(But it is the unexpected twists, golf aficionados say, that make golfing on the road so memorable. Not long ago, Scott Foster, a lawyer who works for FTI Consulting in Annapolis, Md., spotted a fox on the East Potomac Park Golf Course in Washington, within walking distance of the Jefferson Memorial.) It couldn`t have been 50 feet from me, ... There`s nothing but you and the ball and nature all around you.

- Scott Foster

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

- Ben Bradlee

In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!

- Andy Spears