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I don't know what anyone else wants to talk about, and this may not be appropriate, but can I just say...

Can I just say... Inappropri inappropriate. Can I just say...

Inappropriate as its virtues?

One of the things that is, you know, a social custom in Washington is taking out a magnifier

glass and looking closely at the fine print of who got to go to a state dinner.

And in this last one, I just want to say it did not take a magnifying glass to spot

Mr. Bezos's partner. That was some dress, okay? Washington's easily shocked, but that was

some dress. On Washington. I believe that the phrase is it was very un-Washington. I took note of the fact that this state dinner, because Rahm Emanuel is, of course, ambassador to Japan, this event was being described as Ram's prom, which I thought was pretty good.

Well, and of course, he flew back to be in attendance and, you know, was much in evidence in Washington.

Was he hands-on, you think? He was hanging out in the Hay Adams, I was told, which, of course, is the Swank Hotel directly across Lafayette Square from the White House. Do you have a source in the, you know, Bellboy staff? I wouldn't be surprised if you do. Seems like somebody well situated in the head. What a good idea.

You know?

No, I don't.

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