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THE APPEAL OF SCRAPS OF PAPER BOOK WORLD THE RELIABLE SOURCE
Beyond digital: Beautifying Time-traveling Feld vs. Feld, cont’d.
the text in two exhibitions to World War II
A rabbi wants to stay out of a lawsuit
“Blackout”
between siblings Kenny and Karen Feld. C2
a71 At the Folger Shakespeare Library, “Extending the Book:
The Art of Extra-Illustration,” showing how books were speculates on what
enhanced with personal pictures. might happen if ASK AMY
historians coulda71 « At the Library of Congress, “Voices From Afghanistan,”
A euthanized pet
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LIVE TODAY @ washingtonpost.com/discussions Carolyn Hax Noon Going Out Guide gurus 1 p.m. Celebritology Live 2 p.m.
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TEAM CLINTON: The secretary of state, center, attends her morning staff meeting with,
from left: Rich Verma, P.J. Crowley, Joan E. Donoghue, Patrick F. Kennedy,
Jacob Lew, Daniel Smith, Joseph MacManus and Anne-Marie Slaughter.
have cared deeply for the institution,” said Pat-
Clinton has had a longtime inner
rick F. Kennedy, undersecretary for manage-
ment and a senior Foreign Service officer.
circle, but now ‘Hillaryland’ “None who have done as much internal out-
is growing wider at State
reach.”
For sure, Clinton has her share of critics
who take aim at her operating style, complain-
by Lois Romano ing that she has ceded too much of her power
to special envoys and that she has been in a
illary Rodham Clinton ran a presi- global campaign mode of relentless image-
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dential campaign notoriously in- building, intense travel and international me-
sular and unhappy, managing a dia cultivation. Her job approval ratings top
group of egos and backstabbers President Obama’s.
whose dysfunction may have cost One loyalist inside the agency, who spoke
her the White House. Understandably, people on the condition of anonymity to be candid,
wondered what kind of management style she suggested that Clinton is stretched too thin
would bring to the State Department. and has not narrowed her goals or developed
But a little over a year into her tenure as sec- signature issues that will define her tenure.
retary of state, allies and detractors alike say “What bothers me is that we’re planting zil-
Clinton has made a vigorous effort to widen lions of seeds . . . speeches on every issue, but
her circle, wooing and pulling into her orbit where’s the thematic coherence?” this aide
the agency’s Foreign Service and civil service asks.
officials, many of whom said in interviews Stewart M. Patrick, a senior fellow at the
that she has brought a new energy to the Council on Foreign Relations who worked at
building.
“We have had other secretaries of state who clinton continued on C5
ANEW DIPLOMACY
She fully understands that when she
came in there was a weak and degraded
platform. You need it to be refreshed with new
people and new blood, and that’s what we are
“
getting in now.” — Patrick F. Kennedy
Tickle Me Eric
Smithsonian gets 39
isn’t the only one
playing for laughs
Harriet Tubman artifacts
by Paul Farhi by Jacqueline Trescott
To hear Eric Massa tell it, the latest On a blue-covered table in a Capitol
scandal to cost a congressperson his job Hill hearing room, an ordinary hymnal
turns on the following question: Can’t a was raised to the status of a historical ob-
boss engage in a little friendly tickling ject with the simple signature of its own-
with his co-workers now and again? er, Harriet Tubman Davis.
If you ask Massa, a freshman represen- The book of gospel hymns was among
tative (D-N.Y.) who resigned this week, an extraordinary trove of Tubman arti-
SARAH L. V
we have reached a nadir in our once- facts given Wednesday to the National
proud tradition of office high jinks. Mas- Museum of African American History
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sa implied in a series of TV interviews and Culture by esteemed collector and
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Tuesday that he’s a victim of a Taliban- author Charles L. Blockson. Lonnie G.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
esque code of decorum that has turned Bunch, the founding director of the mu- PERSONAL: Among the donated
innocent tickling — and, really, what seum, described the November meeting
ASHING
items is Harriet Tubman’s own hymnal,
could be more innocent than tickling? — in Philadelphia when Blockson, who which she inscribed.
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“Now they’re saying I groped a male objects he is donating. ria; three postcards depicting Tubman’s
staffer,” Massa told Fox News host Glenn “Each object in this collection hum- funeral in 1913; and her wooden-handled
Beck. “Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope bled us, excited us and moved us to tears. knife and fork.
him, I tickled him until he couldn’t And then, Dr. Blockson uncovered Harri- For Bunch, a historian who has been
breathe, and then four guys jumped on et Tubman’s personal hymnal, and I collecting artifacts for the museum for Drum roll, please: NSO’s
top of me. It was my 50th birthday.” think many of us lost it,” Bunch said. the past five years (it is scheduled to
Oh, good times! And, just for the rec- Among the items slated for the mu- open in 2015), the significance of the ob-
ord, scratch the whole “groping” thing. seum are a framed portrait, one of the jects is undeniable. “I knew that this was
new timpanist catches
Massa, who had been under a congres- few photographic images of Tubman a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because
known to exist; a beige silk and linen
the pulse. Page C2
by Anne Midgette
high jinks continued on C3 shawl given to Tubman by Queen Victo- tubman continued on C9
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