Blaine’s Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (Nov 16, 2025): Dry Politics

Q: Take the name of a famous person in American politics (6,6). Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a well-known place that’s very dry, in 4 letters. Remove these letters. The remaining 8 letters in order from left to right will name another well-known, very dry place. What politician is this?

I referred to a list and one place showed up just after a very familiar place.