The Pleasurers of the President
The impresarios of Washington, D.C.’s tourist industry have retained a battery of image consultants to furnish a new city catchphrase, like Seattle’s brand-new “Metronatural” or Little Rock’s in-your-face “the Rock.” D.C. boosters have been making do with a soporific Ken Burns–style appositive, “the American Experience,” and the city’s oddly intransitive license-plate slogan, “Celebrate and Discover.” Read More
