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...public taxpayer money for just a small group of victims of life's misfortune?" - Explaining the turmoil he felt over having to turn down victims and families of victims of other tragedies because "the public-policy response to the 9/11 tragedy is unique to an unprecedented historical event" (The Washingtonian, March...
...person to act like Solomon and try to calculate the value of lives. To be judge, jury, accountant, lawyer, rabbi, etc., is very, very difficult." - Arguing that Congress should try a different method of disseminating compensation funds in the event of another such terrorist disaster (The Washingtonian, March...
...following his education at the U.S. Naval Academy. He left the service in 1972 and later served as Ronald Reagan's Navy Secretary before being elected in 2006 as a Democratic Senator from Virginia. Webb, a prolific writer and author, is haunted by a 1979 article he wrote for Washingtonian magazine titled "Women Can't Fight." He has since disowned that position, but it's a safe bet Hillary Clinton loyalists - whom the Obama campaign needs to woo into its camp - won't let him hit the "Delete...
...Ohhhh,” he replied, stretching the word to four distinct syllables, “the city that re-elected Marion Barry!”***It’s sad, but it’s true: Marion Shepilov Barry Jr. really is an iconic Washingtonian. Presidents and senators come and go, but Barry is in the District to stay.Back in 1990, while mayor, Barry found himself in Washington’s Vista Hotel smoking crack cocaine with a female friend. As he soon learned, the room was under video surveillance, so that when the FBI and D.C. police confronted...
...theGeorge W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with rsums bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that...