Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

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.

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

By 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.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.