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The Kennedys answered the call, and the Senator and his wife looked on approvingly when Mrs. Sadat gave a 4,500-year-old alabaster vase to the Kennedy Center. Later they came in phalanx—Rose, Eunice, Teddy and Joan—to Anderson House, where Sadat was the host. The aura of well being floated through the house, normally the home of the Society of the Cincinnati, descendants of the officers of George Washington's army.
There may have been a little morning-after fatigue, a mild headache or two.
But those are among the subtle joys of being a member of the court.