From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>>bryan_styble  wrote:   
      
   >>>>* Yes, I'm aware that a good while back The CBS Evening News relocated   
   >>>>to the District of Columbia its flagship studio.  That was indeed an   
   >>>>easy but still bold network decision which now distinguishes that   
   >>>>polished CBS production from the less-burnished Muir- and Holt-helmed   
   >>>>newscasts O'Donnell is head-to-head against.  And it was a shift I   
   >>>>applauded when it happened because, why SHOULDN'T a national newscast be   
   >>>>situated in the national capital?  But O'Donnell's bosses' offices DO   
   >>>>remain high up there on some double-digit floor of Black Rock.   
      
   >>>I am always resentful when the national headquarters of anything   
   >>>decamps from the country's original capital to that jury-rigged   
   >>>Johnny-come-lately fractional-size city on the Potomac.   
      
   >>You refuse to recognize Philadelphia? bonk   
      
   >I am not aware of any particular trend of national organizations   
   >moving their headquarters from New York to Philadelphia,even if it   
   >sometimes happens,and it is less objectionable to me than relocations   
   >to Washington.   
      
   I'm pointing out that while the seat of national government was in a   
   number of places temporarily before Washington DC was established,   
   including New York, the Continental Congress sat at Philadelphia when   
   the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776 and when the Articles of   
   Confederation were debated.   
      
   New York was not the country's original capital.   
      
   In 1783, long unpaid soldiers of the Continental Army got very drunk   
   and attacked Congress to demand back pay. Significantly, the governor of   
   Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia to repel the attack,   
   in part because he expected the state soldiers to by sympathetic with   
   the unpaid soldiers.   
      
   Members of Congress immediately departed Philadelphia for Trenton.   
   Congress met in several other cities, then returned to Philadelphia in   
   1787 to debate the new Constitution, but it was the action of the attack   
   upon Congress that led to the provision in the Constitution that there   
   shall be a federal enclave for the national capital. Territory was ceded   
   from Virginia and Maryland to create the enclave. The Virginia territory   
   was retroceded in 1847.   
      
   Washington DC became the capital 1800-1801, but very little had been   
   built.   
      
   >>>Over recent decades it seems to have been a thing for associations   
   >>>of various disciplines to make that move...no excuse...ever ever   
   >>>ever.   
      
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