There's a lot to see besides the trees on the Tidal Basin, like the FDR Memorial, which has a section depicting each of his four terms. Here tourists are hamming it up in the first term section depicting a bread line while Roosevelt struggled to ameliorate the ravages of the depression wrought by the Republican president Herbert Hoover. Hmmm.
Throughout the day during Festival Week there are performances on the stage set up in the basin's parking lot. There's a temporary food court there with picnic tables so visitors can sit and eat and be entertained too amidst the beautiful backdrop of resplendent cherry blossom petals.
Over on the other side of the pond, TJ stands in his portico gazing across the way at the newcomer on the basin, MLK, Jr. For those interested in symbols, a cross is formed along the Mall by the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol as the long piece and the cross piece being framed by the White House and the Jefferson Memorial, with the Washington Monument being the joining point.
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