. 7.2 South Branch Potomac River News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom".
. The impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1999 Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding The National Mall is a large open park in downtown Washington between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol Given its prominence the mall is often the location of political protests concerts festivals and presidential inaugurations the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Pier are near the center of the mall south of the White House Also on the mall are the National World War II Memorial at the east end of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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