PEOPLE WHO HAVE called Washington, D.C. home have their fingerprints all over history, but the city itself is thought to be dull, inconsequential, and lacking in soulfulness. â??A city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency,â? John F. Kennedy famously groused. â??A great, scrambling, slack-baked embryo of a city,â? sneered an unimpressed nineteenth-century reporter. Even among content Washingtonians today, who rightly boast of their cityâ??s cosmopolitan populace, its leafy neighborhoods, its easy sense of communityâ??even among them a certain embarrassment often lurks.
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