Title: There is an old saw that political people and reporters are never "unemployed." Political people are consultants, and reporters are "working on a book."

"The answer to your next question…" For most people the next question is "What are you going to be doing?" Actually, my mother has asked me this question 728 times in the last week alone.

"… stepped off the LEM…" LEM was NASA-speak for Lunar Excursion Module - the lunar lander. The first man to step on the moon was Neil Armstrong whose words, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind," were much more solemn than Conrad's "Whoopee."