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...White House up to a conference on Capitol Hill last Tuesday afternoon--only to find the room completely empty. Arriving back home minutes later, she received further evidence that something was afoot when her husband, dressed as James Madison, urged her into a costume suitable for Dolley. It was, after all, Mrs. Clinton's birthday...
Everyone danced. When one of the first on the floor turned out to be Hillary's mom, Dorothy Rodham (dressed as a mother superior), Dolley Madison exclaimed in mock horror, "That's my mother...
...drove away. Was it a calculated hit or the demented act of a lonely psychopath? Police took all the usual steps: examining fingerprints on one victim's car, retrieving a spent shell casing, checking local gun shops for recent purchases of semiautomatic weapons and stopping commuters along Dolley Madison Boulevard in hopes of finding further witnesses. At week's end the killer and his motive remained a mystery despite the best efforts of federal and local investigators and support personnel...
Washington was built on a river of "ardent spirits," a nice term used long ago for the hard stuff. Laborers on public buildings got larger whiskey rations the higher up they worked, a dubious formula. But the buildings did get finished. Dolley Madison brought this "saloon culture" into the White House, getting the political leaders out of the bars and into more graceful surroundings. The drinks came on silver trays. James Madison cut some good deals...
...When she began dragging men in off the street, the new city's normally tolerant commissioners had her removed. When that British rascal Rear Admiral George Cockburn broke into the White House with 150 of his sailors on Aug. 24, 1814, they ate the dinner prepared for James and Dolley Madison, who had fled. Then, before firing the place, Cockburn claimed a chair cushion, declaring that it would help him remember Mrs. Madison's seat. The remark was considered so risque it was not printed for years...