cape cod canal, monicagate, watergate scandal, edmund muskie, rostenkowski, monica lewinsky, dukakis, john f. kennedy, narragansett bay, richard milhous nixon, clamming, john greenleaf whittier, irangate, lighthouse keeper, merrimack river, arthur schlesinger, robert peary, infidelities, kurt waldheim, torricelli, lbj, mondegreen, indiscretions, misspeaking, herman melville, john wilkes booth, fdr, gurnet, neoconservativism, sea gull, mcgwire, squam, lee harvey oswald, boehner, peccadillo, plum tree, housatonic river, mbta, massachusett, nikita khrushchev, harry truman, driftway, national seashore, accident, jaywalker, pedalo, faial, tidal basin, travesties, dry martini, niihau, lough, beach, rockpile, penobscot bay, snorkeler, northeaster, campobello, transgressions, dixiecrats, boating, louis auchincloss, john kenneth galbraith, dangling modifier, berkshires, coverup, inadvertence, brownback, huac, ineloquent, recollections, alben barkley, barnstable, penobscot river, velella, alan shepard, bartolomeo vanzetti, porpoise, teapot dome, der fuhrer, macaca, assassination, fabrizi, bayonne bridge, drownings, marchioness, fleetingness, wampanoag, mccarthyism, corvair, tin lizzie, albemarle sound, franklin delano roosevelt, inarticulateness, kemosabe, charles lindbergh, robert benchley, equivocations, lethe, scalloping