Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

by Alyssa Mastromonaco

If you’re nervous, you seem uncertain, and I’ve always gone into interviews with the sense that, if it works out, that’s great; if it doesn’t, then it wasn’t meant to be.

The White House was also not a scene where you could just bum a tampon from your girlfriends. Though this is changing, there are not a ton of women working in the West Wing, and many of those who are there have already gone through menopause—not many people traveled with a stash of Tampax.