By day she was a buttoned-up intern for the Reagan White House. But at night, in D.C.’s wild and gritty punk scene, Darcey Steinke really found herself.
IN THE SPRING OF 1983, I returned to my dorm room one day to find a note scrawled on the college message board:MATT DILLON CALLED, left by the work-study receptionist who also happened to be my roommate. I ignored it until several days later, when I remembered the woman from the Reagan administration who had come to speak at my college the year before about professions for women in politics and her work as the head of the Office of Congressional & Legislative Affairs.
on the way. Goldwater’s insistence on conservatism as the “laws of God” made me uncomfortable, but this feeling was not unfamiliar; as a minister’s daughter I was used to often feeling like a fraud. I was not a very good employee. I could neither type nor spell, and I spent a lot of time calling far-flung friends on the White House WATS line , loading up on packs of free White House cigarettes—I loved the gold presidential seal—and sending auto-penned signed photos of Reagan in his cowboy outfit to everyone and their cat.
And then there was the single time I saw President Reagan up close. The East Wing employees were having their pictures taken with him, an annual event in which all the departments participated. I stood with my office mates, and when our turn came, the photographer arranged us around the president. Afterward Reagan seemed confused. “What do these people do?” he said in a wobbly voice to no one in particular.
As it happened, just a few blocks from the White House was a storied punk-rock venue, the 9:30 Club, and I went there one night, midway through my summer in D.C. Located on the ground floor of the Atlantic Building, next door to Ford’s Theater, where President Lincoln was shot, the club was a small, darkly lit space; the only light came from television monitors suspended from the ceiling and playing art films on a continuous loop.
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