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...never got sentimental. But she sat with her best friend Meg Greenfield, op-ed editor of the Post, through almost every chemotherapy treatment in a losing battle with cancer. She talked with her old friend Nancy Reagan almost every week after the former President fell ill. No one quite took care of friends the way Kay Graham did. One night she shared Chinese food with me and my daughter as Courtney and I argued over the propriety of a strapless wedding gown. "Now, Courtney," Kay said, "this is your wedding. You're the one wearing the dress. You should...
...explain: Meg Greenfield, who for many years edited the Washington Post's editorial page, died a couple of years ago. She left behind a nearly completed book called WASHINGTON, which has now been published by PublicAffairs. WASHINGTON is Greenfield's summing up of political and journalistic life in the city she observed with an eye that was wise, elegant, and astringent...
...Every derogatory comparison you can think of has been invoked to show how political Washington works," Greenfield wrote. "The city and its inhabitants have been compared to a boring, elitist men's club; [to] a recklessly run business....The analogy I favor is to high school...
...Condit-Levy sexual affair-which the Congressman has at last admitted, confirming what the audience already knew and bringing this miniseries-in-progress up to date-savored of many of those high school touches that Greenfield noticed. With Chandra's disappearance, the affair has taken on a contemporary American adolescent's dimension of the dangerous, brushing up against evil possibilities (think of Colombine and other shootings, for example) that would have seemed impossible when I was a high school student in Washington years...
...Greenfield says, "...practically all scandal these days...is cover-up-less about what someone did in the first place than about the frantic, insane steps he took to preserve Mr. Image...