Georgia 300: Facts

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at only 0.32 miles (0.51 km) long, New Jersey Route 64 is a state highway that consists primarily of a bridge over Amtrak-maintained railroad tracks?
despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991?
in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train?
the Champion passenger train connected New York City and St. Petersburg, Florida for forty years before Amtrak consolidated it with its former rival the Silver Meteor?

author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?
during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov?

Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election?
Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
Dorothy Sarnoff taught presentation skills to U.S. President Jimmy Carter that included having him tone down his smile?
as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?

Natural Law Party founder Bevan Morris suggested at a press conference that President Bush learn Transcendental Meditation?
Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush?
The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
although Vic Gold co-wrote the first President Bush's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife, in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney?
the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C. received ten tons of broccoli from Barbara Bush after it was banned from the White House and Air Force One by George H. W. Bush?
the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev?
while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?

David Morehouse, president of the Pittsburgh Penguins, served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry?
the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, as well as presidential candidate John Kerry?