Newly elected Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott will host a 10 a.m. coffee session for invited Republican guests Tuesday at the Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss Sen. John McCain’s impending campaign for president with him and McCain.
Lott, a supply-sider and social conservative, had not been allied with McCain previously. However, in his e-mailed invitation, Lott asserted, “John and I have been friends for many years, and my respect for him is unparalleled.” Tuesday’s meeting with McCain, Lott said, will “begin to build an organization that focuses not on our differences, but on our shared goals for peace and prosperity for this nation.”
A footnote: New York investment banker Ken Langone is hosting a fund-raising cocktail reception for former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s prospective presidential campaign the evening of Dec. 19 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel ballroom in Manhattan. The price: $2,100 per person and $4,200 per couple.
Source: excerpt from Robert Novak Column