Jackie Calmes: Nancy Pelosi's indelible mark

On the Capitol's most historic man cave, as on much else, Nancy Pelosi has left her mark.

In her final weeks as the nation's first female House speaker, a reflective Pelosi has been hosting small groups in a ground-floor hideaway tucked in a narrow hall off the beaten path, between two well-traveled corridors. It's the Board of Education room — the name is an insiders' joke dating to Prohibition, when "Cactus Jack" Garner, the House speaker from Texas, retreated there with favored buddies for after-hours drinks. Another Texas speaker, Sam Rayburn, renewed