To take advantage of the upper river above the Great Falls of the Potomac, George Washington started the Potomac Canal Company in the 1780s to circumnavigate the river's falls, rapids, and shallows.
Discussed ad nauseum in THE SPORTING SCENE article on the Potomac Highland and Middle States Wildwater canoeing championship held last spring on the upper Potomac.
If anyone went away disappointed, the applause and cheers shaking the curtains in the cavernous Potomac ballroom at the Gaylord convention center hid it well.
These people have tended to be loyal to the Clintons though many might defect if polls still showed Mr Obama doing better against John McCain.Mr McCain, whose lock on the Republican nomination looks stronger than ever following his own triple victory in the Potomac primary, is another part of tomorrow Mr Obama's euphoric supporters might think about.
But this will happen only if Mr Bush, who incidentally has yet to veto anything (unlike Mr Reagan), makes it clear that he will chuck the current versions into the Potomac.
The most famous incident came in 1862, when General George McClellan inexplicably came to believe that the Army of the Potomac belonged not to him, but to General Robert E. Lee.
It is that he has allowed his Texas-sized ambition to shrink to the proportions of a small town on the Potomac.
JUST across the idyllic upper Potomac river in the West Virginia panhandle, a drenched racetrack sits empty in a mid-Atlantic downpour.
The Pentagon itself stands in Arlington, on the south bank of the Potomac river.
At a spot in America called Pope's Creek, on the shores of the Potomac river, oyster shells discarded by the pre-Columbian inhabitants cover an area of 30 acres (12 hectares) to an average depth of ten feet.
The programme also broadcast an interview with Ben Barnes, a Democrat and former lieutenant-governor of Texas, who claimed that he had helped Mr Bush to get a spot in the Guard in response to pressure from certain well-connected Texans.In this section Pyongyang on the Potomac?
