While the mystified characters who were left behind followed reportage of the event on a TV in a pub, photos of celebrities taken flashed across the screen. They included Hillary's predecessor, Condi Rice, the pope at the time Benedict XVI, and, to everyone's bewilderment, Gary Busey.
Then, in the familiar surroundings of the Thomas Jefferson Room, we saw Hillary Clinton briefing the press. No, she was not smiling as in this, one of my favorite pictures of her in that setting, since obviously presiding over talking points to the media about an event of such global proportions had grave implications.
