David Greggory (the restaurant/lounge, not the reporter) pulled out all the stops for a posh party celebrating "The Way To Win," the new book by ABC News' Mark Halperin and the Washington Post's John Harris.

VIPs included (as stolen from The Note):

The Washington, D.C. book party for The Way to Win, the new book from Mark Halperin of ABC News and John Harris of the Washington Post, was hosted last night by ABC's George Stephanopoulos and the Washington Post's Liz Spayd at David Greggory's restaurant. Tim Griffin, Grover Norquist, and Time's Mike Allen kicked off the party. Senator John McCain leant his sanguine, merry presence, and was quickly enveloped by the crowd. Unflappable Congressman Rahm Emanuel accepted the good vibes of Democrats who greeted him as a potential savior. Governor Mitt Romney arrived, with venerable party animal Ron Kaufman in tow, direct from a fundraiser with President Bush for three gubernatorial candidates (including Iowa's Jim Nussle). Senator Hillary Clinton exclaimed to boyish trio Jonathan Prince, Jake Siewert, and Mike Feldman that they looked all "grown up." Charles Gibson chatted with Karl Rove. The homophonous duo of Terri McCullough and Terry McAuliffe hung out with Senator John Sununu.

Also there: Renaissance supercouple Dee Dee Myers and Todd Purdum; spokeswonders Ron Bonjean and Kevin Madden fresh off the Hill; inexhaustible, global Jay Carson; the New York Times' Adam Nagourney popping in for approximately 30 seconds, presumably taking a break from penning his boffo front-page piece; glowing honeymooners Jake Tapper and Jennifer Brown; Public Strategy's David Bates; better half Mary Matalin; ever-elegant Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn; dapper glacier explorer Dan Balz; tag-teaming Bill and Su-Lin Nichols; and the lovely Ann O'Hanlon, amusedly brushing aside awestruck queries on how she held down the Harris fort.

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Harris joked that his main goal in writing this book was to learn what the heck the "Gang of 500" was. He said he failed in that goal. And he also failed to figure out what the hell The Note was talking about each day.

Harris said he and Halperin disagreed on the decision to give away the books for free at last night's event: Halperin thought it'd generate good buzz. Harris said he'd never heard of a book party where you give the books away for free.

One of the more touching moments occurred when Halperin choked up as he thanked his girlfriend, Karen.