Dining With Condi

This was a nice touch:

On the next to last night of his presidency, President Bush made a rare foray out for dinner Sunday — not to a restaurant, but to the Watergate apartment of the woman he recently described as “like my sister,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Mr. Bush, who spent the weekend at Camp David but returned Sunday afternoon, left the White House at 6:23 pm. All seemed quiet at the grand white mansion. The presidential pooch, Barney, could be seen standing outside the South Portico, looking well-fed, as the president’s motorcade pulled out.

Outside the White House gates, though, the scene was anything but quiet. Just 40 minutes before Mr. Bush left, President-elect Barack Obama’s motorcade arrived at Blair House, the presidential guest house across the street from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The streets were packed with people cheering and taking pictures as the Obama motorcade sped past them. Secret Service held the crowd back to the sidewalks. ...

At 8:30 pm, Mr. Bush left the Watergate for another unannounced stop–a party at the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park in Maryland, hosted by the White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, and his predecessor, Andrew H. Card Jr., for about 600 current and former White House staffers.

I hope that before he left that party he told the staffers that they were all getting a pardon so Nancy Pelosi will leave them alone.