Have you bought your mom a card yet? Sunday is Mother’s Day. In honor of the holiday, we present Washington’s political moms [photos].
Did you know that Frank Sinatra once co-hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner?
See past WHCD hosts.
The National Journal staff trekked to the roof of the Watergate to view the Discovery shuttle fly over DC.
Our health/tech editor Maggie Fox brought her daughter along!
Submit your Discovery photos to readers@nationaljournal.com
UPDATE: More photos from Maggie! Here we all are looking windblown.
Left to right: Kate, Me (digital team/newsroom assistant), Alissa Swango (digital editor), Jenna Zwang (digital team), John Miller (PUSH team), Matt Vasilogambros (PUSH team) and Lara Seligman (PUSH team).
Dogs, dimmed lights, jeans, what happens on the Hill when Congress is in recess?
Photos (more puppies!) here.
First lady Grace Coolidge displays her pet raccoon Rebecca to children gathered on the White House grounds for Easter egg rolling, April 18, 1927.
PHOTO: AP Photo/Library of Congress
The White House Easter Egg Roll Through the Years—PICTURES
The cover of the April 7, 2012 issue of National Journal.
The Essential D.C. Toolbox: The days when trade-association executives could rely on a fat Rolodex are over. A whole new set of skills is needed. By Chris Frates
Here’s a graphic that looks like an amoeba.
Go here to hover over the bubbles and view total compensation packages for 558 chief executives of trade associations, labor unions, interest groups, think tanks, and other nonprofits.
Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, is the large yellow bubble there at the top.
Goodell’s Compensation package: $11.5 million.
As a woman, I suggest clicking between “men” and “women” to compare.
The sunset over the Potomac.
Here at National Journal we talk about sunsets about as much as we discuss politics. Here’s the view from my office window (yes, yes, I do have the best view).
Everyone is gathered around my desk. The politics managing editor is writing a sonnet. Our deputy editor is emailing her photo to “everyone that I know.”

