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New Bigwigs: Colin Powell, Donald Hornig & Hubert Humphrey

  • January 28, 2013

by UrbanTurf Staff

New Bigwigs: Colin Powell, Donald Hornig & Hubert Humphrey: Figure 1
Hubert Humphrey, Colin Powell, Donald Hornig

This week on Bigwig Digs, we add three men whose historical legacies differ vastly but who’ve all left a clear mark on the world of politics, nationally and internationally.

Click through to see:

  • 38th Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s former condo, which overlooks the Potomac River in the now developing Southwest Waterfront neighborhood.
  • The McLean mansion where George W’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell now resides.
  • The house where atom-bomb builder Donald Hornig, who died just this past week at 92 years old, lived while serving as a science adviser to the Johnson administration.

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This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/new_bigwigs_colin_powell_donald_hornig_hubert_humphrey/6559

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