Measuring the drapes
While attending a wedding reception in the Adlai Stevenson Room of the Women's National Democratic Club,1 I was focused on this painting by Jerry Scott.2
The scene depicts then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton sizing up the Oval Office.
1 The art collection of the WNDC includes several Herblock drawings and fascinating political memorabilia. However, tours are by appointment only. That's the thing about those D.C. Democrats: they'll give you what you want, but they demand that you establish firm timetables that include a deadline for leaving.
2 Others were focused instead on why the WNDC passed over the nation's many deserving women Democratic leaders in order to name the room after a man.
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i also found this to be one of the most interesting paintings---because of that wistful yet determined look which did seem to be "measuring the drapes"---was it the prospect of new ownership during clinton 1's administartion or the longterm plans for (rodham)clinton 2?
Or was she just thinking about the drapes?
The Woman's National Democratic Club doesn't like me because in a story I wrote about a speech there, I said the speaker "schmoozes with white-haired ladies in pastel ensembles, sitting on the mansion’s gold-lacquered chairs." They wrote this letter.
Awesome! (And I believe I did sit in a gold-lacquered chair while I was there.)
That's nothing compared to what Imus said about them.
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