Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

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.