The challenge

for Mr. Obama is to use his postelection leverage to persuade Republicans or to

help Speaker John A. Boehner persuade Republicans that a tax compromise is in their party’s

political interest since most Americans favor compromise and higher taxes on the wealthy to reduce

annual deficits. Some of the business leaders the president will meet with on Wednesday

are members of the new Fix the Debt coalition, which has raised about $40 million to urge

lawmakers and their constituents to support a plan that combines spending cuts with new revenue. That

session will follow Mr. Obama’s meeting with labor leaders on Tuesday. His first trip

outside Washington to engage the public will come after Thanksgiving, since Mr. Obama

is scheduled to leave next weekend on a diplomatic trip to Asia. Travel plans are still

sketchy, partly because his December calendar is full of the traditional holiday parties. Democrats

said the White House’s strategy of focusing both inside and outside of Washington

was smart. “You want to avoid getting sucked into the Beltway inside-baseball games,”

said Joel Johnson, a former adviser in the Clinton White House and the Senate. “You can

still work toward solutions, but make sure you get out of Washington while you are

doing that.” fire engulfed the building, which collapsed into the cellar, sealing in its

contents. which today lies just beyond the suburbs of Washington. said John Hennessy, a

National Park Service historian. Such sites are a kind of archaeological Brigadoon, the fictional

Scottish village that appeared once a century. They come unexpectedly amid construction,

scientists and historians have only a brief period to document them, and then construction

resumes, destroying the site. Most archaeological artifacts today are unearthed because of

development, said Joe B. Jones, the director of the Center for Archaeological Research at

the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. Until people start breaking ground, only

then do people realize what they’ve got there, and everybody’s got to scramble to find a

way to deal with it in a responsible way,” he said. in Fredericksburg’s

case.