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Roasting and toasting Frank Mankiewicz |
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By The Hill Staff
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Posted: 12/08/04 12:00 AM [ET] |
The roast and toast for Frank Mankiewicz tomorrow night is not because he is stepping down from his post as vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton, the PR firm.
The event, at the Capital Hilton, is intended to help establish a scholarship in politics and journalism at Columbia University and promises to be a star-studded affair.
Invited roasters for the former press aide to Bobby Kennedy include actress Lauren Bacall, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), former Sen. George McGovern (whose presidential campaign Mankiewicz helped run), Ellen Goodman, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), who is recovering from hip-replacement surgery. Bacall and Dole are unconfirmed.
Cokie Roberts is master of ceremonies.
To donate to the scholarship fund or find out more about the roast, call (202) 944-1924.
Want a new job? Some lawmakers in need of key aides
Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) is seeking a new chief of staff. Applicants were being interviewed last week, but no decisions have been made yet.
Zak Anderson, 31, who has been with Baucus since 1996, is moving to the D.C. office of The Gallatin Group, a Northwest public affairs firm.
Over in the House, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) needs a new press secretary.
Aaron Lewis, who has been an aide to the lawmaker for the past five years, is leaving. So far, no replacement has been named. It’s not clear whether the slot will be filled internally.
Rep. Ford to bring mystery guest to Wynton Marsalis concert
The Lincoln Theater promises to be quite a scene this Friday. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) and other celebs are scheduled to attend the Wynton Marsalis jazz concert there.
Ford is bringing a mystery guest, but public relations representatives for the event are speculating that it’s actress Fran Drescher, whom the congressman took to dinner at Café ilano when she came to Washington earlier this year.
Ford’s office did not return calls seeking information.
Others going Friday include MSNBC political talk-show host Chris Matthews and his wife, Kathleen, Marsalis’s 29-person entourage, AOL founder James Kimsey and former IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti.
The catered afterparty at the Thurgood Marshall Center is expected to attract an estimated 500 people, including many Washington socialites.
Congrats to Capitol employee on running ultramarathon
Bob Cochran, a security employee who works in the House cloak room, recently ran the JFK 50 miler. The Reston, Va., resident finished the race 797th out of 876 runners. His time was 12 hours, 54 minutes and 32 seconds.
The race commemorates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, because it happens on the weekend he was murdered. The course begins in Boonesboro, Md., and runs up the Appalachian Trail. The first 15 miles are rocky, hilly and slippery.
The next 26 are flat along the C&O Canal trail. Finally, the course jumps back onto country roads, some hilly, and finishes in Williamsport, Md.
Hill reporter Jonathan E. Kaplan also ran the race. He finished 699th out of the 876 runners. His time was 11 hours, 52 minutes and 13 seconds.
The arts aren’t a dead issue for some lawmakers
Three lawmakers will join New Moves Inc., a not-for-profit organization, on Dec. 14 for a holiday reception and airing of “D.C. Dances,” a music video.
The event is invitation-only and will take place at the City Club here in Washington.
The pols planning to attend include Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), and Congressional Arts Caucus co-chairs Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) and Christopher Shays (R-Conn.). The video includes performances and cameo appearances by the lawmakers.
The entertainment include jazz, ballet and street performers.
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