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Both NBC and CBS updated us on events Inside-the-Beltway. Katie Couric anchored from Washington for CBS, where she updated us on the bill to give the District of Columbia a voting seat in the House of Representatives. Since the electorate of the District is so overwhelmingly Democratic, the plan is that its new Representative would be joined by a fellow rookie from Republican-leaning Utah: "In Washington principle is peppered with politics." Even with that deal passage is unlikely: the Senate has not yet voted; President George Bush has threatened a veto; and the whole idea may be unConstitutional.
Joining Couric in DC was CBS' Steve Hartman, whose Assignment America publicized the photojournalism book Where Valor Rests. It documents the "pomp and horrible circumstance" as well as the care and maintenance of Arlington Cemetery. The commemorative book is presented in an exclusive box set to the bereaved kin of everyone buried there. The public can buy a mass market version. Proceeds go to "providing this book for families who have lost soldiers."
NBC's In Depth took note of the resignation of counselor Dan Bartlett, an aide to George Bush as Governor and then as President for 14 years. White House correspondent David Gregory ticked off the members of the "Texas exodus" preceding Bartlett: Karen Hughes, Joe Allbaugh, Donald Evans, Harriet Miers, Scott McClellan--Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales are "the two left standing." Anchor Brian Williams asked NBC's in-house historian Michael Beschloss (at the tail of the Gregory videostream), who was promoting his new book Presidential Courage, for context. Beschloss said that such a turnover of the inner circle was common "late in a Presidency…Presidents evolve. They particularly evolve when they lose two houses of Congress."
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