The night before he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995, a woman at the Cosmos Club asked him to fetch her coat.

ECONOMIST: John Hope Franklin

His own many black firsts president of the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association, membership of Washington's Cosmos Club had not necessarily opened the door to others.

ECONOMIST: John Hope Franklin

At a time when New Yorkers routinely spot Leonardo DiCaprio in person at Manhattan's trendiest nightspots, Ms. Lewinsky's reported social life does not extend beyond a quick handshake with William Safire at the Cosmos Club--a scene that will presumably be accompanied in the movie by background music from Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.

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