Wednesday's Washington Post carries an obituary of Mike Causey, who for thirty years wrote the column the Federal Diary, a column covering the federal workforce and matters affecting it. The obituary credits him with popularizing, if not necessarily inventing, the expression "inside the Beltway." It says also that he was one of the first to make a circuit of the Beltway (I-495 and I-95) in 1964, of course for his job. Causey left in the Post in 2000 for the Federal News Network. He died in his offices there on September 26, after filing his last column.
The obituary remarks that Causey often broke news in his column, far back in the newspaper, that would show up a couple of weeks later on the front page with a big headline. If I recall correctly, The Washington Monthly forty years ago regarded this as a scandal. According to the obituary, Causey was mostly amused by it.
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