Road Trip sees the best of D.C. (photos)
Road Trip 2010: Washington, D.C., is not a tech-heavy city, but Larry Ellison seems to be enjoying it. And there's plenty else to see as well.
Larry Ellison does D.C.
You might not think of the nation's capital as a hotbed of technology, and you'd be right, for the most part. After all, this is the heart of American politics, and it's definitely a company town.
But sometimes tech and travel meet, and with Road Trip 2010, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman has been sojourning in Washington the last few days looking for just that convergence.
He may have found it Tuesday. He was visiting the Lincoln Memorial and aiming his camera down the Reflecting Pool towards the Washington Monument and the Capitol when who should wander into his shot but the Oracle CEO, seen here, posing for a photo being taken by his assistant.
CNET attempted to find out what Ellison was doing in Washington, but before Terdiman could inquire, Ellison was gone. And Oracle didn't return two messages left Tuesday afternoon.
Supreme Court
Despite all that activity, it was very calm outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon, allowing the building and what it represents to stand stolidly independent from the hoopla.
South side of the White House
North side of the White House
The Capitol
Close-up of the Capitol
Albert Einstein
Reflecting Pool
The Washington Monument
Towards the Washington Monument
National Archive
Department of Justice
National Security Agency
FBI headquarters
FDR Memorial
This unassuming marker is located adjacent to the National Archives, and beside it there is a sign that reads:
"In September 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called his friend, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, to the White House and asked the Justice to remember the wish he then expressed:
"'If any memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot. But I want it plain without any ornamentation, with simple carving, 'In memory of _______'"
"A small group of living associates of the president, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial."
Half mast
As a result, flags all over Washington were at half-mast in the days following his death, including the ring of flags surrounding the Washington Monument, seen here.