Gate 35X was the clunky magic trick that got members of Congress from last-minute votes at the Capitol to family dinners in small-town Ohio or Alabama. Gate 35X was "the purgatory they sent you to as a passenger," according to Jeremiah McBride, "and the hell they sent you to as a pilot." The experience of Gate 35X was not great, Kristol admits, but the idea of it has softened in his mind. “You felt Gate 35X could be in ‘Casablanca,’ or some noir mystery of the 1950s.”Story continues below advertisementBut Gate 35X was not “Casablanca.” It was “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” At Gate 35X you were surrounded not by Bogarts and Bergmans but by Martins and Candys. “So we can once and for all retire the dreaded Gate 35X — ”Davis, sitting on the dais, interrupted with vigorous applause.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2021 09:56 UTC