Michael Moynihan: Breakfast at Willard’s gives a taste of Washington's political life
A hotel frequented by many a US president over the decades retains its reputation as the centre of Washington’s political life
Willard Hotel in Washington DC in 1923. Gore Vidal identified the hotel as the heart of Washington’s political life. Photo: HUM Images/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The White House sits in the middle of Washington DC, reassuringly familiar, political power incarnate.
Is that power palpable across the city, an almost physical sensation? Perhaps, though that could have been the weather — heavy rain drenched your correspondent the day he admired the president’s residence. A good excuse to visit one of the other great repositories of power in the area, mind.
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