Thursday, March 5, 2009

Zuckerman Fellows reception at the home of Beth and Ron Dozoretz – 3005 – 45th Street, N.W. (around the corner from my house). Clear, nice night. Usual impressive event with Dave Gergon and Mort Zuckerman hosting the Fellows who are in town for the week to get a glimpse of how USG is run. I will lecture to them tomorrow. Met the usual crew from DC and had nice conversations: Tom Daschle – I expressed my sorrow at his misfortune of having to drop out of contention for HHS secretary. Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Nora O’Donnell (MSNBC), Gloria Borger (CNN), former Sec. Dan Glickman, Gen. George Casey, Ambassador from Israel, etc. The young people there was amazing: wounded vets of the Iraq war now going to Harvard Business School; Physicians studying economics, health people in government schools. You feel good about USA when you see these people.