A steal
"President Ford's home reduced $100,000," screams the headline of a real estate ad posted by Joan Dixon of McEnearney Associates, referring to the late Gerald R. Ford's longtime residence in Alexandria that has languished on the market for 10 months.
The three-level, four-bedroom national historic landmark -- with a pink bathroom -- features a "gigantic swimming pool" and "classic knotty-pine kitchen and den," yet nobody is rushing to buy the property.
"It is a wonderful opportunity to live in a historic house with modern conveniences yet distinct features left when the Ford family lived there," Mrs. Dixon writes in the ad. "This is a friendly neighborhood close to Alexandria's Old Town, the Pentagon, and D.C. Metro buses are within one block."
The nation's 38th president lived at 514 Crown View Drive for nearly two decades, including when he was a congressman from Michigan, vice president, and even for the first 10 days of his presidency. New cost of owning history: $899,000.
Cost of a cut
National political operative Tim Roper, president of Tim Roper & Co. in Chatham, Mass., was in Washington last week on business and while "walking along L Street, I passed by a hair-stylist shop. Once I saw this sign, I just had to snap a picture."
The hilarious sidewalk sign, placed in front of Duvall's Hair Co. at 1400 L St. NW, referring to two $400 haircuts received recently by 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, announced: "John Edwards Presidential Special, only $400. Walk-ins welcome!"
Big brother
"I need to be inspired," Democratic Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia replied when we asked him whom he endorses for president in 2008.
Although the congressman is a supporter of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- and in more ways than one -- he tells Inside the Beltway that he's mightily impressed with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, particularly after reading the senator's second book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream."
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