If this federal office building could talk, it would demand respect




Federal Drive with Tom Temin show

Summary: The great comedian Rodney Dangerfield became famous for his jokes about lack of respect, partly for being ugly. One went like this: He was so ugly as a child, his dad carried around the picture that came with the wallet. If buildings could talk, the Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, home to headquarters for the Health and Human Services Department, might also lament about being considered ugly. In fact, its become something of an internet thing, after a Washington newspaper called HHS the ugliest building in D.C. Here to speak for the 1976 structure, from Health and Human Services, online communications director Kelly Langford, and the acting assistant secretary for public affairs, Kamara Jones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices