HEADLINE: Recession Watch: High Spirits in Lancaster County and Downtown Washington GUEST NAME: Jim McTague SUMMARY: Jim McTague reports high foot traffic in Washington and economic activity in Lancaster County, despite retail desperation. He confirms no
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HEADLINE: Recession Watch: High Spirits in Lancaster County and Downtown Washington
GUEST NAME: Jim McTague
SUMMARY: Jim McTague reports high foot traffic in Washington and economic activity in Lancaster County, despite retail desperation. He confirms no signs of recession (Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, Dockside Willies).
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:39.1 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Lancaster County, the best county in the Keystone State. However, |
| 0:46.4 | Mr. McHagg, former Washington editor Barron's, now a novelist in Lancaster County, has a day in the nation's capital to report. This segment is entitled, Lithuania to Lancaster. Jim, a very good evening to you. There you were in the |
| 0:55.8 | nation's capital. You were gathered together for a board meeting, and then you were strolling the |
| 1:00.9 | streets you know very well. First, how's business in downtown Washington? Because last time I was |
| 1:07.1 | there four years ago, it was quiet. Hi, John. The last time I was there, about three |
| 1:13.3 | months ago, it was quiet, but I see a lot of foot traffic in downtown Washington now. I did not |
| 1:18.7 | see any National Guard or police, by the way, but you can see people are going to the office. |
| 1:25.7 | There were a lot of tourists, Japanese tourists. I took a picture of a family |
| 1:31.0 | from Jordan. It seemed like the foreigners outnumbered the American tourists. The city didn't |
| 1:40.0 | have any homeless encampments. They're all gone. I saw one homeless fellow sitting on a bench, |
| 1:47.6 | but he wasn't camping. I saw one panhandler in the entire downtown. And again, I hardly saw |
| 1:53.7 | any police at all. I saw three park policemen in Lafayette Park across from the White House. |
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