Stephanie Green

The National Geographic Society is more than an investment for Howard Buffett, a director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

“I love being in a room full of orange,” said actress Eva Longoria Friday night after receiving the Dorothy I. Height Racial Justice Award at the YWCA USA Women of Distinction Awards gala.

Marjorie Merriweather Post, once the richest woman in the U.S., inspected her tables twice before a dinner party: in the morning, to check on her Russian Imperial porcelain, and right before guests arrived. Footmen stood behind each chair throughout the meal.

Emergency workers who responded to the devastation in West, Texas, Newtown, Connecticut, and Boston were honored at last night’s Ford’s Theatre Annual Gala, where Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance.

“I want that car,” said former Congresswoman Connie Morella, pointing to a white 2013 SRT Viper parked in the National Building Museum last night.

“To think that came out of a Jewish girl from Brooklyn,” joked Michael Feinstein, host of concert last night celebrating the music of Carole King, this year’s recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

With a record 720 dissenting opinions to his credit, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens joked that he should be given “a lifetime failure award.”

Former Senator John Breaux said tennis taught him “how to handle winning and losing.”

“It was like Elvis was in the house,” said Senator John McCain. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“Obviously, I get to speak first since I was the best secretary of defense,” joked former Vice President Dick Cheney, while introducing Donald Rumsfeld at a book party last night.

Last week Warren Buffett dipped a toe in the Twitter-sphere, but don’t expect his friend David Rubenstein to follow suit.

“My first car was a Jetta,” said Caroline Cunningham, the president of the Trust for the National Mall yesterday at its 6th Annual Benefit Luncheon.