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Washington, D.C. Mini Tour Washington, D.C. Mini Tour Itinerary Highlights Washington, D.C. (3) DAY 1 WASHINGTON DC Board your flight for of the Court. The U.S. Capitol Building houses the • Arlington the nation’s capital! You will be met at the airport legislative branch of government, comprising the Cemetery by your TSA Tours Courier and escorted on a tour House of Representatives and the Senate. The Library of Arlington Cemetery. This sacred, 500-acre site of Congress includes many different items such as: • Jefferson contains the graves of President John F. Kennedy, his Stradivari violins, the letters of George Washington, and Lincoln brother Robert and wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, over 15 million prints and photographs, over 2 and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. See Arlington million recordings, over a million movies, the papers Memorials House, the hilltop mansion of Southern hero Robert of everyone from Freud to Groucho Marx, the magic • Vietnam E. Lee. books of Houdini, Braille volumes, recorded books, sketches by Alexander Graham Bell and the contents DAY 2 WASHINGTON DC Memorial Wall On today’s full day of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the night he was tour with a licensed guide you will visit the Thomas shot. It also has the world’s largest collection of comic • Bureau of Jefferson Memorial, where you will books. The White House, since 1800 find a 19-foot bronze statue of the the official residence of the president Printing and third President of the United States. Engraving of the United States, is located at 1600 Also visit the Lincoln Memorial, a Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, tribute to President Abraham Lincoln • Supreme Court D.C. The White House is one of our and the nation he fought to preserve nation’s historical treasures. You will during the Civil War (1861-1865). • White House view the rooms and furnishings, past The Vietnam Memorial Wall is one of and present. Walk along the ground- the most visited sites in Washington, • Capitol floor corridor and look through the its black granite panels reflecting the doors of the Vermeil room and Library, Building surrounding background. The Wall walk up the stairs to the State floor, is for people to remember those who • Library of and through the East, Green, Blue, died in the Vietnam War. There are Red, and State Dining rooms. The Congress close to 60,000 names on The Wall. Visitor Center features many aspects When people come they often put of the White House, including its a piece of paper up to The Wall, architecture, furnishings, first families, scribble on it, and the name will appear. Also tour social events, and relations with the press and world the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a division of leaders, as well as a thirty-minute video about this the Department of Treasury. See exhibits of the first historic home. paper money ever made. All U.S. currency notes are printed from plated hand made steel tools. At the gift DAY 4 DEPART Return home with new knowledge shop, one of the most popular things to buy is a bag about how the U.S. government functions and lasting of shredded money. impressions of the beautiful city of Washington, DC. DAY 3 WASHINGTON DC Tour the government NOTE: All entrances to government buildings are buildings of the capital today with a licensed guide, subject to availability and government policy at the starting with the Supreme Court, home of the judicial time of booking. TSA Tours cannot guarantee that all branch of the government. On the ground floor visitors buildings will be accessible on any given tour date. can view changing exhibits which depict the history TSA Tours Register and pay online at www.tsatours.com · 800-444-8885.
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