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摘要

THE signature cocktail at the bar of the Trump International Hotel, in the Old Post Office building in Washington, is a $100 vodka potion served with oysters and caviar. It is called "The Benjamin" after Benjamin Franklin, America's first postmaster-general. "You can see anyone from Rudy Giuliani to foreign dignitaries to businessmen from Dubai here," says a bartender, who serves drinks under a vast American flag on loan from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank. She likes her job for the "exposure" it affords. Franklin, a signatory to the constitution, may not have been so impressed.