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.
Although Monday was expected to be quiet at the Four Seasons due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, it was a surprise to see another eerily empty room Tuesday. No doubt stock market jitters robbed many “power” breakfast regulars of their otherwise robust appetites.
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Still, a few notables (clearly the ones secure enough in their diversified portfolio) stopped by, including Paul Wolfowitz, who held court in one of the restaurant’s corner tables. It’s the same seat usually occupied by columnist George Will, so it shall hereby be declared “Conservative Corner.”
Georgetowner Malcolm “Mike” Peabody dined with Sally Pingree. Peabody is the chairman and founder of Friends of Choice in Urban Schools and president of the Peabody Corporation. Pingree is a philanthropist and Democratic Party donor, as well as the daughter of the industrialist Charles Engelhard Jr. (and sister-in-law of Oscar de la Renta). No doubt Mr. Peabody was looking to score some funds for his prized schools project.
A few members of the Core Capital Partners group were in Tuesday but not at their usual window table, and maybe that’s because their leader, Jonathan Silver, flew in under the radar Monday and was there with one other guest. Also in the room on the MLK holiday was Texas lawyer Jon McKenna, husband of former Texas congressional candidate Dolly McKenna, who tried three times without success for a House seat in the ’90s.
