Neat town.
Yeah, everything pretty much in walking distance, and the metro lines for the rest, and if you hang out at the right bars at the right hours, you can get some pretty funny insight to US politics, haha

My fav moment in DC was arriving there by night bus, and just breathing in the fresh ear and early morning quietness after a hectic weekend in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
(... a weekend which involved highly illegal activities such as camping with just my sleeping bag in central park overnight, and sitting with an empty beer bottle with some yeast left-overs floating around at the bottom, while overlooking east river from the Fulton ferry park. Though I had the bottle in a paper bag, like my cali friends had taught me, the latter cost me a 50 dollar fine from a cop with golf cart and flashlight, who struggled figuring out my height for his report, since my passport specifies it in star trek units :roflmao: )