ALL I SEE IS SCUM

“ALL I SEE IS SCUM.”
A Conversation by the Reflecting Pool That Says More Than It Seems

The morning was unusually calm in Washington.

The sky was bright, the trees stood quietly along the water, and the Reflecting Pool looked almost perfectly still. Tourists moved slowly along the paths, cameras appeared everywhere, and the monuments in the distance gave the city its familiar sense of history and importance.

But sometimes, in a place built to remember great speeches and great moments, the most revealing conversations are the ones that happen