"We will reopen Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House." the 2000 Republican platform
But they never did. Eight years later, the barricades remain. It was a phony issue, of course just another stick with which to beat Bill Clinton, who closed the road at the insistence of the Secret Service. In an interview with PBS a month after Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney stated the obvious: "Pennsylvania Avenue ought to stay closed because, as a fact, if somebody were to detonate a truck bomb in front of the White House, it would probably level the White...
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