Foggy Bottom

noun

a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
Informal. the U.S. Department of State, whose office building is located in this area.

Foggy Bottom

A nickname for the United States Department of State , whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C. , known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp.

Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.

Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.

Even Dwight D. Eisenhower had to battle for the Republican nod in 1952—and he had conquered Normandy, not just Foggy Bottom.

In her largely risk-free, uncontroversial tenure at Foggy Bottom, Benghazi stands out as flashpoint.

At Foggy Bottom—admittedly a much smaller agency than Defense—only 340 employees have been sent home.

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