Washington Isn't Working. So Move It.
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Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sixty years ago, breaking up thefederal government was all the rage.
Experts advised that no new government offices beestablished in Washington. In October 1953, prominent architectWaldron Faulkner went further, proposing that most existingagencies leave town, too. He advocated, in the words of onehistorian, “preserving the heart of the capital as ‘a culturalcenter’ of libraries and museums.”