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Holiday Planning
To get ready to give thanks, our gang gets together (a day earlier) Tuesday, Nov. 25, at noon.
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  DATING
Meet the Family
Tour the renovated mammal hall at Natural History.
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  MOVIES
Review 'Revolutions': Weigh in on Neo's farewell.
  BARS & CLUBS
Brickskeller: 1,000 bottles of beer on the wall -- give or take.
  SHOPPING
Shoemaker Country:
Where everything old is new again.




Those short on time need only visit landmarks that bring great leaders to life. This guide sifts out the in-name-only or Washington-slept-here locations, to highlight the city's most educational, and intentional, presidential sites.
Fourth of July fireworks over the Jefferson Memorial
Click on the image for more photos of presidential monuments near the National Mall. (Photo by Susan Biddle/The Washington Post)
SITES TO VISIT, BY NEIGHBORHOOD
Mount Vernon, Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post Alexandria
View our first president's home and the Masonic memorial named for him.
John F. Kennedy sculpture/Photo by Robert Berks Studios Inc. Along the Potomac
Riverside presidential memorials take inspiration from nature.
The White House, Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post Downtown
Closed to the public since September, the White House opens for school tours.
Washington Monument, Photo by Michael E. Hoyt/Lensman National Mall
Tributes to revered presidents anchor the Mall and shape its vistas.
Washington National Cathedral, Photo by Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post Upper Northwest
Save Clinton, Woodrow Wilson is the only former president with a D.C. home.
SITES TO VISIT, BY PRESIDENT
GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Mount Vernon
Washington Monument
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Ford's Theatre
Lincoln Memorial
Petersen House
Surratt House Museum
MORE PRESIDENTS
James Garfield Memorial
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Lyndon Johnson Memorial Grove
Kennedy Center
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial
Theodore Roosevelt Island
White House
Woodrow Wilson House

BURIAL SITES
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington National Cathedral



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