"How A Pompous Reporter Saved The Press Corps"

David Gregory.

White House correspondents like to describe their colleague NBC News’s David Gregory as a “bit of a showboat.” They recount, for instance, the time he ordered a Cape Cod cocktail on a press charter plane–then sent it back four times to achieve the ideal ratio of vodka to cranberry juice. Sticking with the air-travel theme, they note that his luggage tends to fill two overhead storage compartments. “He has a kind of traveling wardrobe,” one reporter explains.