Drug Czar in Search of a Throne

WILLIAM McGURN

Here on the top floor of an unassuming office block at 1825 Connecticut Avenue, America’s new drug czar has set up shop. By the standards of imperial Washington it is hardly a throne: standard Government Services Administration-issue furniture, a few simple photos of his family, and today, in celebration of his just-born second son, Joseph, someone has tied a balloon to his chair. Sharing shelf space with the collected papers of everyone from Madison to Cardinal Newman are autographed footballs from the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos.

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William McGurn

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WILLIAM McGURN

Here on the top floor of an unassuming office block at 1825 Connecticut Avenue, America’s new drug czar has set up shop. By the standards of imperial Washington it is hardly a throne: standard Government Services Administration-issue furniture, a few simple photos of his family, and today, in celebration of his just-born second son, Joseph, someone has tied a balloon to his chair. Sharing shelf space with the collected papers of everyone from Madison to Cardinal Newman are autographed footballs from the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos.