



The handover. The oath is taken on the steps that were stormed a fortnight earlier, in front of rows of empty seats, and he is not there to see it — the last flight south leaves at dawn. Five days later a door in Palm Beach gets a brass plaque, and the exile has an institution again: the Office of the Former President, which will spend the next year issuing paper.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 293. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…