Anonymous ID: 26b2f6 Dec. 11, 2017, 11:06 a.m. No.74298   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A short snippet. Maybe needs more digging

 

In its midcentury heyday, 50 or so members of the Senate Wives' Club, met at 10 o'clock each Tuesday morning, Democrats and Republicans alike, sitting together in Red Cross uniforms, rolling bandages and exchanging the intimate details of their lives. "We became close friends," remembers Ellen Proxmire, whose late husband, William Proxmire, spent three decades in the Senate. "We all lived here. We would see each other on weekends."

 

Today, the club, long ago renamed Senate Spouses in a nod to the growing number of women in Congress, meets about once a month, and fewer than a dozen attend. "A lot of the Senate wives don't live here," explains Proxmire, "so it would be harder to have a weekly meeting." When Michelle Obama hosted the annual First Lady luncheon for the club this past July — harkening back to a time when the likes of Van Cliburn and Marvin Hamlisch played at the event– only 45 or so current Senate spouses showed for Jill Biden’s slideshow of her recent trip to Iraq, over crab cakes and grilled shrimp. The room was filled out by Proxmire and other wives of senators long-retired. "It wasn't unusually well attended," she says.

 

http://www.newsweek.com/no-more-washington-wives-and-its-our-loss-66761

Anonymous ID: 26b2f6 Dec. 11, 2017, 11:14 a.m. No.74366   🗄️.is 🔗kun

I’m guessing that information is passed through the wives. Sort of an underground UPS for back door dealing