An Airport Bathroom That Will Live In Infamy

Newsweek, January, 2008

NEWSWEEK ’ s Hilary Shenfeld went to the scene of Sen. Larry Craig ’ s undoing with one mission: to get inside. How she did it — and what she saw:

The hardest part was actually finding the bathroom. There are 86 public lavatories in the Lindbergh terminal of the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, and every employee I asked sent me to a different one. I finally found it: across from the food court, in the shadow of a giant statue of Snoopy and Woodstock. There was no sign on the door, nothing that read “Larry Craig was here.” I waited until late to go inside, figuring that foot traffic would die down and I could minimize the awkward stares. Around 11 p.m. I stopped a friendly-looking guy and persuaded him to escort me (sorry—bad pun) inside. It’s pretty big in there:...

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