In true English dame fashion I headed to the closest bookstore after work today and perused for a new true love. Having had no luck in my recent dating adventures with books, I decided to venture into somewhat unfamiliar territory and scouted the US History section followed shortly by the biographies. With Washington, DC on my mind and and as always passion I couldn't help but see love at first site with The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club by C. David Heyman. Befriending a plush leather chair for a 30 minute break, I quickly made friends with the Washington Post women this book writes of and was enthralled with all the new things I was learning about Washington and of course, the power of an intelligent and passionate woman.
"Every student of Washington's political process ought to know that the business of government is often transacted during evening hours, sometimes over a drink and sometimes over a meal-but almost always in Georgetown. What President Johnson did not say is that these evening transactions are largely conceived, created, produced, and directed by women."
Come to find out that "The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club" was actually a term coined by none other than Ronald Reagan to identify an elite corps of prominent and powerful Washington women whose connections, courage, wealth, vision, intelligence, and ambition afforded them an abundance of social and political clout in a town traditionally and historically run by men. In reality, it was the great woman behind the man...but of course we already all know that.
Signing off from the South Florida Post-
ETM
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