“No, but you may.”
– George Washington (well, actor Dean Malissa playing America’s first president at Mount Vernon) responding to a request from a young woman. “Can I get a picture?” she asked. Washington was roaming around Wednesday night’s Distilled Spirits Council dinner at historic Mount Vernon. Every year the lobbying group inducts a new crop of political and business leaders into its George Washington Spirits Society, as Washington, in his own time, was a great distiller of spirits.
