Politico: “After a decade or more where it built into a kind of fantasy weekend for political journalists … the WHCD today is, at best, in a semi-flaccid state. People in the local economy of hotels, salons, limo companies, caterers and professional handlers report a marked drop in interest and spending among entertainment and business leaders in attending the dinner and the corresponding three-day marathon of parties that still surround it.”
Said long-time Washington observer Sally Quinn: “It certainly is not the glamour place to be in Washington anymore. What ignites something like this is to have celebrities from Hollywood and New York and the political celebrities from Washington, and when you don’t have either one, you’ve got 3,000 journalists staring at each other.”
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