UP ON MICHIGAN AVENUE, N.E., where Washington’s battered buses once rumbled into huge garages for a night of rest and rehabilitation, the machines, materiel, and manpower are quietly being readied. Inside these cavernous quarters, an impressive array of sleek state-of-the-art equipment — some of it said to be one of a kind — has been assembled, tested, and retested.
Wired to Washington
“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know.” John Gunther once wrote. “The second is to find out who will tell you.” Gunther, who died in 1970, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious and prolific journalists: He knew what he wanted to know, found out who would tell him, and told the rest of us in Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A.,
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