Each week, Yeas & Nays joins Carol Joynt, the host of the Q&A Cafe at Nathans of Georgetown, at various power breakfast spots around the city to see which players are getting their day started with deal-making, networking and glad-handing.
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Who says Washingtonians are wimps? Despite Friday’s miserable weather, the city’s movers and shakers still shuffled into the Four Seasons fortheir Breakfast of Champions.
Vernon Jordan was the big name in the house, and he was having breakfast with NRG Energy’s David Crane before slipping away to London for the weekend. We asked Jordan — a longtime friend of the Clintons — how he thought Hillary had performed in Thursday night’s debate. “I thought she did fine,” he told us. Conservative columnist George Will came over to Jordan in order to say hello, not the other way around. Will occupied his standard seat in “Conservative Corner,” dining with Mary Katherine Ham from Townhall.com.
Atlantic Media had a strong presence that morning: Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley, National Journal Group President Suzanne Clark and Atlantic Media’s new head of human resources and general counsel, Chris Murphy, all were spotted in the restaurant.
Elsewhere in the room: Democratic fundraiser and consultant Nancy Jacobson (wife to Clinton pollster Mark Penn) and Hogan & Hartson Senior International Affairs Adviser H.P. Goldfield. And breakfast staple Juleanna Glover’s breakfast guest on this morning was the Washingtonian’s Garrett Graff.
