Possible Clues:

• Nothing was converted into capital
• Old president working with Irish Water perhaps is not for turning
• Dirty linen not to be written about in seat of government
• County name in 30 states
• Old statesman to stand up in grand fashion
• Revolutionary not behind money-laundering perhaps of the American capital
• Measure following clean-up operation in American state
• American general and president
• State Gem: petrified wood
• Nothing was new for this new president