A ghost story in the US Capitol
They always ask if I felt something. "Across your foot? Your shin?" My shin? "Yeah. Your ankle. Did you feel it?" Not really. But before I respond, they ask again.What...
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They always ask if I felt something. "Across your foot? Your shin?" My shin? "Yeah. Your ankle. Did you feel it?" Not really. But before I respond, they ask again. What was it like?" they inquired. "Or did you just fall?" Then they speculated I might be clumsy. Hmmph. Clumsy. I truly don’t think so. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS BRACES FOR POST-ELECTION GAME OF MUSICAL CHAIRS AS LEADERSHIP BATTLES LOOM Oh. I fall like everyone else. I work out daily. I’ve taken a couple of tumbles on predawn runs in Alexandria, Virginia. You never know when one of those sidewalk snakes will slither up from the asphalt and nip you on the ankle. I used to snow ski. I studied martial arts for years and hold a second degree black belt. Clumsy? Nah. "But, what do you think it was?" they follow up. Well, I have my theories. I was a little tired that day. I noted the lip on the small staircase near the Memorial Door of the U.S. Capitol where I may have caught the edge of my brown loafers. I remember my shoes. Rubber soles. Slight scuff on the toes. Perfectly matched with my crisp tan summer suit. Not quite an "Obama" tan suit. But appropriate for summer. And I thought at least reasonably dapper for traipsing around the U.S. Capitol and covering Congress on a sweltering July day. Was it the shoes? My fatigue? Or how about my haste to "get the story." I spotted then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his small coterie of aides and a security detail descending a spiral staircase after a meeting with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. D-Calif. I would try to ask Trudeau a question. No. This really doesn’t have anything to do with Trudeau. Or the fact that I recalled that there was a picture of him, aged about 14 or 15, at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, rooting for the Expos. He’s there with his father — the most storied of all Canadian prime ministers — the late Pierre Trudeau. Of course, the Expos no longer play in Montreal. They don’t play at all. They moved to Washington in 2005 and ar…