Talk:McLean, Virginia

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the history isnt right. mclean was a train stop between lewinsville and langley, which where about 3 miles apart. A town grow around the train stop and then it eventually absorbed langley and lewinsville

Contents 1 Multiple minor vandalisms 2 Completely unsourced section deposited here 3 Notable Residents 4 Any Part of Arlington? 5 Railroads?

[edit] Multiple minor vandalisms

Looks like several unlogged in users have been slowing building in uncorrected vandalism. Its gotten intermixed with real edits, so I'm attempting to manually edit out the vandalism (Checked back to Jan 1, 2007). Removals listed below

• Pinecrest Ave [...] all run through McLean. -- minor dead end street. Non notable.
  
• "and the bankroll of French aristocrat Jean-Pierre Guenard" -- no reference
  
• "Over the years McLean has been the home to many lavish estates owned by families like the Broyhills (Broyhill Estates) and the Loseys (Losey Manor)." -- no reference. Broyhill McLean Estates appears to be the name of a neighborhood developed by Joel Broyhill. Couldn't find any references to a Losey Manor.
  
• "William Dodge Country Day School, " -- no reference. Couldn't find any references to a William Dodge Country Day School
  

Notable Residents

• "Larry King" -- no reference
• "Astronaut Phil Bubel" -- no reference
• "Terry McAuliffe" -- no reference
• "Mark Oliver Everett" -- no reference
• "United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez" -- no reference
• "Francis Fukuyama, philosopher, political economist and author" -- no reference
  

Occasional Reader 03:34, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Completely unsourced section deposited here

[edit] Notable Residents

• Pat Buchanan, political analyst
• Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter
• Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense, former chairman of the Carlyle Group
• John Dingell, Dean of the United States House of Representatives
• Richard Darman, senior Carlyle Group affiliate
• Senator Byron Dorgan
• Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House
• Frank Keating, former Governor of Oklahoma
• Senator Ted Kennedy
• Senator Patrick Leahy
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, lawyer, and former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (2001–2005)
• Correspondent Roger Mudd
• General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State
• Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
• Fred Dalton Thompson - former Senator from Tennessee
• Former Director of the CIA Admiral Stansfield Turner
• World Bank President Robert Zoellick

Former residents:

• Mark Oliver Everett, musician
• Michael Jordan^{[citation needed]}
• Vice President Dick Cheney (slated to return after current White House term)
• Queen Noor of Jordan
• Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States
• Kenneth Starr
• Eugene H. Trinh, astronaut

Please do not move back without citations. Toddstreat1 23:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC) Many of these persons are listed in public Fairfax County property tax records (http://icare.fairfaxcounty.gov/Search/GenericSearch.aspx?mode=ADDRESS) although many has also recently requested anonymity for their records. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.254.214 (talk) 04:01, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Any Part of Arlington?

A previous version of this page claimed that a small part of McLean is in Arlington County. Although Arlington County's zip code map does indicate that a part of zip code 22101 is in Arlington, presumably the Census Bureau is free to split zip codes when defining a census designated place. The CDP map included in the article appears to follow the county boundary rather than including all of 22101.--Jwwalker (talk) 23:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Railroads?

It appears that previous authors are confusing two rail lines when this was written: "built in 1906 the electrified Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway (later the Washington and Old Dominion Railway),". The Great Falls and Old Dominion Railway did not become the Washington and Old Dominion Railway. One rail line primarily went down the center of Old Dominion Road. The other went down the path of the W&OD trail. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.254.214 (talk) 03:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)