THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Where the Elite Meet to Eat

THE PRESIDENCY

Jean Baptiste Delisle may be the most skillful politician in Washington. Every noon he brings together the folks who count in the fractured capital and he sends them away a little mellower. Paul, as he is known to the cognoscenti, is the maitre d' of the Sans Souci, the restaurant that has become a national institution.

Sans Souci may be the most significant extracurricular power arena in the Western Hemisphere, perhaps the world. It is the only place where the people who run things still see each other and behave in a...

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