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This is the thing I keep saying about the four D.C.s.
1. Cynical: the shorthand for dirty politics, see also “Beltway”
2. Hopeful/Poignant: Sorkin’s D.C., sometimes Capra’s
3. Postcard: The source of much of the nation’s iconography (memorials, White House, Mall)
4. City where people live/work
