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When they put us in the lbj room, lyndon johnsons old office to wait for the start of our interview, i was trying to seem bla se, but it is impossible particularly when i realize theres something strange going on in the ceiling of that office. i could not stop myself from starting to take pictures of the ceiling as if i was straight off the tour bus. they started painting the ceiling of the lbj room in the 1850s before it was the lbj room, before they at the time thought it would hold the senate...

Today. not new but i did not know before today it existed. when you are a civics dork, one of the great things about coming to d.c. is even when you are working its impossible not to be a tourist. producer julia nutter and i were on the train. i was trying to get work done. but oh, my god, theres a member of congress right over there which for a civics dork is so exciting in a schoolhouse rock sort of way i couldnt do the crossword done on the train. then going into the capitol building its like...