Mika Brzezinski grew up in McLean and went to the Madeira School
As Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski faced down the Soviet Empire with nerves of steel. As he discusses what's become of his neighborhood, however, the 25-year McLean resident seems at wit's end.
"When I moved in, there were more or less fields as my neighbors," Brzezinski explains in his sharp, no-nonsense cadence. "I had a barn, my kids had three horses, and they would go riding in the vicinity."
Those were days when McLean was a pastoral refuge from the hectic capital.
The Kennedy boys played touch football on the lawn of Hickory Hill, Ethel Kennedy's estate just off McLean's Route 123. And, perhaps a mile from what is now Surry Hill, Gore Vidal and his half-stepsister Jackie Bouvier frolicked around Merrywood, the bucolic 46-acre riverside home of Jackie's stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss. To this day, McLean lacks a proper downtown.
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