"He's making copies, helping set up for hearings," said committee press secretary Jo Mainey . "Just general intern-type duties." Democratic Rules spokesman Eric Burns called him "a sharp, well-mannered young guy."

Meanwhile, he's living with other young politicos close to his age at the University of California's Washington center, a heavily secured residence hall and classroom space on Scott Circle where UC students say he's doing his best to blend in and downplay his famous name.

"He's completely laid-back, chill," said a UC student and fellow intern who befriended him in the dorm. "He doesn't want anyone to know who he is. . . . He likes his job, but he doesn't really talk about what he does and what his family does. The basic conversations are about soccer or about girls or school."

A British Embassy spokesman would not say how Blair came to live at the UC complex: "Euan Blair's internship is a private matter between Euan Blair and his employers."

Reporters for a conservative London paper, the Mail on Sunday, last week chronicled young Blair's trip to "Washington's Latin quarter" -- er, Adams Morgan? -- where he supposedly drank beers and flirted with a "beautiful" UC student.

Donna Brazile 's father, Lio nel, only left Louisiana twice in his life -- first to the Korean War, then to a San Antonio hurricane shelter. Both times, he likes to say, the government picked up the tab.

Now he's itching to get back to their home town, New Orleans, Brazile said, but his family doesn't think it's safe for the widowed 75-year-old to return to a wrecked neighborhood.

"You don't know the tricks we've played to keep him in Baton Rouge," the Democratic strategist said. "We found him 20-year-old girlfriends! I tell my sisters, 'Go find him another nurse.' "

Brazile spoke with rueful wit about how Hurricane Katrina scattered scores of close relatives across eight states at a Wednesday night gathering at the Capitol Hill offices of Democratic consultant John Jameson . Money collected at the small fundraiser benefited Katrina rebuilding efforts by the nonprofit ACORN.

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