Washington Story

Joe Gresham is a hardworking but taciturn congressman from Massachusetts. Reporter Alice Kingsley arrived in Washington, DC and was hired by Gilbert Nunnally, a tabloid columnist and cynic, who wanted Alice to expose a mature political scandal. Their goal was "No Comment Joe" Gresham, and she began to make up a story about him, telling him it would be a benign "personal profile." Gresham is struggling with real legislative dilemmas, weighing funding for shipbuilding facilities, which will benefit his own region and broader defense requirements. In order to get to know him better and dig up some appropriate dirt, Alice agrees to go to his hometown with Joe, where she meets his mother and observes him in his local situation. She finds that Gresham's healthy image does not seem to have any pretense, and is in a dilemma between her commission to write an "almighty" story and her growing appeal to Joe.