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"At dessert [actor Ron] Silver got up to offer a toast and remarked that there were a number of people present who had given something important to their country. He then asked all who cared to do...
...Her account of her own chmuble acts will always rank as four of...
...Nearly everyone answered...
...Clinton to go first...
...the most moving hours of my life...
...No," Darman countered, 'Why don't we talk about the contributions each of us has made to the long-term fiscal health of this nation...
...The President was ushered in, looking disheveled and joyful "^n/' he said to my husband as he took his seat...
...Even though Eliot Richarckon was already four sentences into his description of his own crusade on behalf of the Law of the Sea Treaty the gathered luminaries succeeded in imploring Mrs...
...29, 1997 48 PERSONAL HISTOPvY MOKE PAIYTY PROTOCOL Confessions of a Washington Hostess, Part II BY SALLY OUINN HILLARY Clinton is so witty w and charming that when s she looked up from one °i I Kay Graham's fingerbowk with a J gleam in her eye, I knew whatever a she said would be delightful "Many s of us have made great sacnfices for ' the good of humanity," the Km ; Lady commented...
...Sally Quinn, in "Party Protocol: Confessions of a Washington Hostess," The New Yorker, Sept...
...One evening a few years ago, 1 was seated between Coin Powell, who is so wonderful and brave, and Arthur Schlesinger, who is perhaps the most brilliant man in human history, when Richard Holbrooke, who is wonderfully self-effacing, stumbled in late and found Richard Darman sitting in his seat next to Jane Alexander...
...I have written often about the manners of the Georgetown elite, at fim with tartness and wit and later with redundancy and gentle sycophancy, but then I am invited to so many parties that you are not invited to, and I feel it my duty to bring a bit of my glitter to your humdrum little lives...
...Clinton finished her four hour tribute to herself, I took a final satisfying bite of my boiled pea casserole whilst glancing at thea Greek ambassador, who had had a stroke and died on his plate in the midst of the First Lady's remarks...
...Why don't we take turns talking abom them...
...Why don't we go around the table and talk about the sacrifices each of us has made on behalf of the Dayton peace accords...
...I "You were close to Jack Kennedy...
...ner party can never be too bland...
...I believe this was in the fall, the time of year when I convert to Judaism so I can get invited to Bill Safire's annual Yom Kippur party and I broke the tension by standing up and reciting the mourner's kaddish for Pamela Harrimm It was either Aristotle or Clark Clifford—whoever is older—who said that food at a Washington din...
...Nearly everyone answered...
...Why don't we take turns talking about which of our recent Presi-dents best embodies the values of this nation...
...He then asked all who cared to do so to talk about what they thought their greatest sacrifice had been...
...But as I listened to her touching testament, I couldn't help thinking of my own sacrifices, which have taken place in the venue known as the Washington dinner party...
...And as Mrs...
...Holbrooke suggested...
Vol. 3 • October 1997 • No. 4
