In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
David BrinkleyIn the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
David BrinkleyThe one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
David BrinkleyBy early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.
David Brinkley