Senator Jeff Bingaman is retiring after thirty years of shunning the spotlight and just getting great policy work done. I think he was a combination of Jimmy Stewart ala Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. — one of the nation’s wisest legal minds….ever.
Anderson & Low Just received this wonderful holiday pic from London-based, turbo-talented photographers Jonathan Anderson & Edwin Low, called just “Anderson & Low” by their friends. I love stopping in at the National Portrait Gallery in London — and discovering photos there that they took. Kate Middleton enjoys their work also.
Editors at The Atlantic shared notes about the best books they read during the past year. These books did not need to be published in 2012 — but read during the last twelve months. My selection was Adam Goodheart’s 1861: The Civil War Awakening.
Senator Chuck Hagel hasn’t spent much time at Human Rights Campaign dinners. I wish he had gone — or better yet, had been invited by the organization to speak and share his views on gays in American life.
Chuck Hagel voted in favor of John Bolton’s nomination before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations.