Elizabeth Drew's Washington, from covering Nixon to making new friends on Twitter

Forty years ago, Elizabeth Drew's first big assignment in her new job at the New Yorker was to keep a journal of life in Washington as Richard Nixon's White House was unraveling. Just after Labor Day in 1973, she told her editor, William Shawn, about her "seemingly outlandish" hunch that both Nixon and his vice president, Spiro Agnew, would be replaced within the year, and Shawn urged her on. Her mentor, John W. Gardner, advised her to "write it so that forty years from now people can say, 'So t...