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Inside the Beltway

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would become serious only if it 'got outside the Washington Beltway', if the depths of the disgrace were understood by the American people. In 1974, the truth of Watergate flooded the country, and the Nixon presidency ended. It can be said that the myriad doubts about the Warren Commission's findings
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represent a reverse situation. The doubts would never be taken seriously until they were inside the Beltway, in the halls of
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used to characterize matters that are, or seem to be, important primarily to officials of the
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The following cities and counties are located entirely or partially inside the Beltway:
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who cover them – as opposed to the interests and priorities of the general U.S. public.
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Wall Street Journal: "Why 'inside the Beltway' is a target of populists"
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Idiom referring to issues related to the U.S. federal government
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Reporting in 1975 on the prospect of a reexamination of the
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that lie within the perimeter of the Capital Beltway.
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Index

Inside the Beltway (terminology)
Capital Beltway
Washington, DC
idiom
U.S. federal government
contractors
lobbyists
media personnel
Capital Beltway
circumferential highway
Washington, D.C.
American English
metonym
Beltway bandits
Washington Times
American University
John McCaslin
Maryland
Virginia
Warren Commission
assassination of John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
President Kennedy
Congress
White House
The New York Times
Washington, D.C.
Alexandria, Virginia
Arlington County, Virginia

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