Picture guide …
Photo 1: On the right, Howard Mortman
Photo 2: On the right, Howard Mortman
Photo 3: On the left, Howard Mortman
Photo 4: On the left, Howard Mortman

PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY TRIVA:
Pres. Trump was at Commanders game yesterday. Before him, the last president who attended a regular season NFL game?
Jimmy Carter, Oct. 2, 1978 (Monday Night Football). The then-Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 9-5...(4 field goals, safety on final play)

New movie "Nuremberg" with Russell Crowe and Rami Malek is out today.
See the entire 1948 U.S. Army documentary of the Nuremberg trials - first screened in Germany in November 1948 and released in 2016 - here via the C-SPAN Video Library & American History TV: www.c-span.org/program/amer...

Huge privilege today: attended in person the Supreme Court oral argument in historic Trump tariffs case…

Some personal news:

"Think Robert Caro meets Rodney Dangerfield"

www.nationaljournal.com/s/730043/by-...

YIDDISH for body parts as spoken in debates held in New York City:

- Oct. 22, 2025, NYC Mayor: Tucchus
- Oct. 25, 1998, NY Senate: Putzhead

(it tucchus a while to remember the second one)

"As the Blue Öyster Cult band once sang: We (don't fear) the reaper. We (don't fear) the reaper. We (don't fear) the reaper."

--
@RepStenyHoyer
on Russell Vought ...
(#MoreCowbell)

"The comedian took seventy-nine seconds of applause before beginning: 'As I was saying before I was interrupted—'”

-- New York Times March 8, 1960 - Jack Paar "returned to TV last night, 25 days after he had walked out in the middle of his show because NBC had censored a joke."

On the left: Slapshot
On the right: Howard Mortman

Farewell Palm Restaurant Tysons Corner sign!

PRO TIP:
Need a good job? Ask the employer where they put "the" quotation marks ...

Reporting LIVE from Capitol Hill where the Guinness is 51 cents a pint this crisp but clear St. Patrick’s Day morning … Back to you in the studio…p

It's time for the annual Latke - Hamantaschen debate!
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 starting 7pmET ...
Sponsored by the all-volunteer Jewish Study Center.
In person at Adas Israel in DC... Or virtually by zoom.

Details/sign-up here: www.jewishstudycenter.org/events/25w7-...

Behind scenes of new C-SPAN promo spot "Democracy Unfiltered."
What was full context when Presidents Carter Reagan Bush Clinton Bush Obama Trump Biden - & Trump again talked democracy?
Find out in NEW episode C-SPAN Radio podcast "The Weekly."
Find/download/listen wherever you get podcasts ...

Happy Elena-Kagan-Eats-Chinese-Today Day to all who celebrate!

Christmas morning and decorations at Union Station in DC near Capitol Hill -- shot via
@cspanwj.bsky.social on
@c-span.bsky.social