The Morning After at the White House – The New Yorker

On the bright and beautiful Wednesday morning after Election Night, downtown Washington, D.C., seemed a bit out of sorts. Shops were boarded up; eight-foot temporary fencing surrounded the White House grounds; haggard commuters said things like “Not great!” into their phones. But the White House itself, despite an ungainly wooden construction project out front, looked as stately and gorgeous as ever. A group of visitors who had registered weeks earlier for a tour, perhaps hoping to bask in […]
The Morning After at the White House – The New Yorker