One of the more interesting things about spending time in Washington is that things happen here that really don’t happen anywhere else.

On any given day, for example, you might bump into a House member in the airport, or see the featured guest on last week’s Sunday talk shows out at lunch. It really is something that doesn’t happen much, say, in Boston or Charlotte ... or anywhere else, for that matter.

I had one of those experiences a few weeks back, when I was out for dinner with a group that included a bunch of DC recognizables. The folks included a sitting Democrat senator, a few other high-level pols, and a leading NGO leader. Both parties. A good cross-section of the town.

Because this is Washington, of course, at some point during the conversation, we got onto the topic of the current presidential campaign. Recent news reports had mentioned two of the attendees on a list of potential Trump or Harris Cabinet secretaries, so the chatter turned to topics such as transition politics, Senate confirmation, and, ultimately, running a federal agency.

I have run a federal agency. In fact, I have run three: the Office of Management and........

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