A veteran of the Washington scene, CBS News Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch provides an inside look at the issues and personalities shaping the political dialogue in the nation's capital and around the country. A look at the politics behind the Bush administration's national energy report. The manners and mores of Washington through eyes of a veteran journalist, the late Meg Greenfield.
Women seeking executive office still face an uphill battle.
Currently, just four of 50 U.S. governors are women. No, not Monica and Marc, but the Clinton of '92 who came from nowhere to beat a president named Bush. Hugh Rodham is the most recent family member to humiliate a president, but he is hardly the first. Love ain't easy in the nation's capital. Just ask President Bush and Sen. Hillary Clinton, who spent Valentine's Day apart from their spouses.