While visiting his West Coast Limited stores in the late 1970s, Leslie Wexner was intrigued by a shop that sold women’s underwear. It was called Victoria’s Secret.

It was brothel Victorian, he once said in an interview. Not erotic, but very sexy.

Wexner, who left his family’s general clothing store to specialize in women’s casual wear, saw the possibilities. He bought the store and catalog in 1982 for $1 million.

In a heartfelt op-ed column in Sunday’s New York Times headlined “A President Like My Father,” Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for president.

“I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,” the daughter of president John F. Kennedy wrote. “But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.”

Judith Regan may have published a book with no last chapter. It doesn’t make for good reading, but it would seem worth her while.

In the film, Groundhog Day, the TV weatherman played by Bill Murray wakes up to the same day again and again.

In a Washington version of the film, the White House keeps nominating Steven G. Bradbury to run the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Donald Rumsfeld is back, promoting an idea that got him into hot water when he ran the Defense Department.

In his first major speech since departing the Bush administration in 2006, Rumsfeld pushed for a new propaganda agency to combat the anti-U.S. rhetoric emanating from Muslim countries and to burnish the American image abroad. He said the U.S. needs an agency bigger and better than the old United States Information Agency, the Cold War-era operation that was absorbed into the State Department.

Paul Wolfowitz is never jobless for long.

The State Department announced yesterday that the former World Bank president will chair its International Security Advisory Board. He succeeds former Sen. Fred Thompson, who resigned last summer to launch his short-lived presidential campaign.

When we grow up, we want to go to Davos.

All those billionaires and potentates murmuring over cocktails, making deals in their hotel rooms, jitterbugging at the Google gala. The World Economic Forum is the ultimate Muckety meeting.

You’d think our name alone would earn us an invite. But we’re still young and underfunded and we don’t have the wardrobe. Next year, watch out!

Democrats are quick to criticize President Bush’s handling of the economy. However, at least one top Democrat has done pretty well during the last eight years.

Former President Bill Clinton made $9.2 million in speaking fees in just his first year out of office in 2001. He later got a reported advance between $10 million and $12 million for his memoir, My Life.

All this money adds up. Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, listed their assets as between $17.4 million and $53.7 million, in the most recent report made public.

And now it appears that Bill Clinton is eligible for a $20 million payout for his relationship with a private equity firm.

While he hasn’t been nominated for any Academy Awards, Josh Brolin may be the actor most connected to the current Oscar nominees.

Brolin obviously made good choices, taking roles in three films with Oscar nominations. He appeared in No Country for Old Men, which was one of the most nominated films of the year, taking eight Academy Awards noms, including best motion picture and best director.

Brolin had a role in In the Valley of Elah, in which Tommy Lee Jones is up for best actor. He also appears opposite Denzel Washington in American Gangster, which picked up two nominations. (Story continues below interactive map.)

Gen. Peter Pace, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his one-time vice chair, Adm. Ed Giambastiani Jr., have accepted corporate posts just a few months after retiring from the military.

SM&A, a consulting firm that advises defense firms and other companies, said Friday that it hired Pace as president and CEO of a subsidiary, SM&A Strategic Advisors. The 40-year Marine Corps veteran, who retired in October, also joins SM&A’s board of directors.