A PinkDome reader and history buff went to Washington, D.C. recently and sent us this great walk through history about our nation's capital. Enjoy! This is a long post, but we're keeping the whole thing up without a break because I love it!

Washington DC is rich and vibrant, a place pulsating with history and hookers. As an important gift to our PinkDome readers, we're providing this tour of great spots in American History and who made them famous.

GEORGE WASHINGTON: The White House
" History tells us that even as the city's planners debated the final design of this house, masons laid its stone foundations 4 feet thick. Like our Nation's Founders, these men were building a monument to freedom that they wanted to last. Over the course of two centuries, as all of you know--and we've seen some references tonight--this old house has withstood war and fire and bulldozers, just as its inhabitants have faced a stern test or two."

-- Bill Clinton, White House Bicentennial Dinner, Nov. 9, 2000

"Man, this place smells like ass." --PinkDome DC Spy

BILL CLINTON: Oval Office Bathroom--to the right

"[W]e made an arrangement that . . . he would have the door to his office open, and I would pass by the office with some papers and then . . . he would sort of stop me and invite me in. So, that was exactly what happened. I passed by and that was actually when I saw [Secret Service Uniformed Officer] Lew Fox who was on duty outside the Oval Office, and stopped and spoke with Lew for a few minutes, and then the President came out and said, oh, hey, Monica . . . come on in . . . . And so we spoke for about 10 minutes in the [Oval] office. We sat on the sofas. Then we went into the back study and we were intimate in the bathroom."

--Starr Report

"You guys won't believe what I had to do to see this room. Let's just say like a Texas Lawyer I got shot in the face." --PinkDome DC Spy

Click here for the rest of what I think is some of the funniest shit I've read in a long time.

CHIEF JUSTICES REHNQUIST & ROBERTS: The Supreme Court Building

"These stripes on my robe mean I'm the pimp here, got it?" --Chief Justice William Rehnquist
"Could someone turn off that strobe light? It's making me feel weird." --Chief Justice John Roberts

"Oh look y'all, that's where they take away our civil rights!" --PinkDome DC Spy

JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: Coke Can. Justice Thomas is solely responsible for the dramatic drop in canned coke sales in the United States for a full 18 months after testimony at a Congressional confirmation hearing. Personally, I still spritz a little Clorox on top of the can in case of errant pubic hairs ruin "The Real Thing" for me.
" One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office. He got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, "Who has pubic hair on my Coke?" On other occasions, he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal, and he also spoke on some occasions of the pleasures he had given to women with oral sex."

Anita Hill, Opening Statement, Clarence Thomas Hearing

MARK FOLEY: White House Page Residence Hall
"A graduate of the 2000 page class says Foley actually visited the old page dorm and offered rides to events in his BMW. 'His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations, and he asked me for photographs of my erect penis,' the former page said. The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18." [ABC News, 10/1/06]

"Eh, I saw the pages this year. Bunch of zit faced frat boys and girls you know aren't getting laid. This whole congressional page program has really gone downhill. Foley ruined it for everybody. Bastard." --PinkDome DC Spy

LARRY CRAIG: Union Station
"Upon walking into Union Station one day, I made eye contact with a well-dressed older gentleman whom I recognized as Sen. Craig. We, after having made eye contact for 30 seconds or so, we began walking towards one of the restrooms in Union Station.

"I followed him in there. We went to the urinals, where we both unzipped ...

"The restroom became busy, too busy to do anything. So we zipped up and then followed each other to the second restroom in Union Station, where we began the same process. And had a -- I also performed fellatio for a very, very short amount of time, as that restroom became busy as well. At that point we both zipped up and left and went on our separate ways.

"Walking time included I would say maybe three minutes, four minutes. Not very long.

"It was unmistakable. I mean, I just recognized him, you know, as being Sen. Craig. I just didn't have any doubt in my mind that that's who it was. And when the encounter was over I proceeded to search on the internet and confirm that you know with a picture of him, and sure enough it was him."

The Idaho Statesman, 8/28/07

"I went in that bathroom and it was like there was a cloture vote going on there were so many congressmen in there. Jeesh, where can you go just to take a piss in this town?" --PinkDome DC Spy

DAVID VITTER: Congressional Phone System

"Telephone records released by Deborah Jeane Palfrey indicate she placed calls that were answered by Vitter's Washington phone on five occasions while Vitter was in the House, from 1999 through 2001. On four of those five days, the House was in session and Vitter participated in every roll call vote.

One day was particularly busy in the House, with Vitter's phone receiving Palfrey's call in the middle of the eighth recorded vote of the day, at 5:06 p.m., according to the records.

The records do not indicate whether Vitter himself took the calls or if another person, an answering machine or another answering device picked up the calls."

-- Washington Post, July 13

"I tried dialing a congressman's office but their VRU kept asking me to press 1 for hot legislative talk and 2 for full-release policy analysis. I thought that was just weird." --PinkDome DC Spy

TOM DELAY: House of Representatives Travel Office

Tom DeLay's airfaire for a trip to England and Scotland was paid for by Jack Abramoff's credit card, and other expenses, including food, phone calls, and golf was charged on another lobbyist's credit card. That's in direct violation of House ethics rules that prohibit registered lobbyists for paying for expenses for members.
--Democrats.org

"The sign clearly said "Book a Trip Today," but when I asked if I could go on a fact-finding trip to Belize they told me those trips were booked years in advance." --PinkDome DC Spy

After all of this history I was engorged with pride and after a few sophisticated drinks I realized $200 for a couple of hours with a companion at my hotel isn't very expensive at all. Now, how I put that on my expense report is going to be the real bitch. Any ideas?