White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2014

To celebrate the Dinner I did two historical reviews of the proceedings. First for Politico Magazine and the second for the Washington Post style section. Calvin Coolidge was the first president to attend. In the 50’s and 60’s it was a Sinatra and Hope type of affair. Helen Thomas was the first to break to … Read more

Dinner with Tina

The story of Tina Brown and the end of the old Newsweek is told in the new Politico Magazine. An enlightening read. Many thanks to Susan Glasser, EIC, and Janet Michaud, DD. We worked a bit extra on this but came up with the right note. Not unsympathetic to Tina encircled by the increasingly inscrutable … Read more