We've all done it - left the restaurant and then realized later that we left our credit card behind.

But we don't all have Secret Service agents to retrieve it for us.

Former President Bill Clinton, in the Triangle to speak at a memorial service for historian John Hope Franklin, ate dinner Wednesday night at Sullivan's in downtown Raleigh.

According to a publicist for the restaurant, Clinton complimented the chef for his salmon steak, visited the kitchen and talked to some of the prep cooks, and had his picture taken with some local high school grads who were there to celebrate their graduation.

And then he forgot his credit card.

"The Secret Service is picking it up today," said Laura Krebs, a publicist for the chain that operates Sullivan's.

Newsweek's cover story on John Edwards has a local angle.

The article, promoted as "The Sleeper," contends that Edwards may do better than expected in Iowa by winning the smaller rural precincts. 

It notes that Edwards and his wife Elizabeth held a farewell dinner with staffers and campaign reporters at Sullivan's Steakhouse in Raleigh after he withdrew from the race. 

The couple were asked if Edwards would run again: 

Edwards, perhaps not wanting to appear impolitic, didn't touch the subject. But Elizabeth was in a more expansive mood, and spoke for her husband. At the hotel two nights before, they had stayed in room 2008. Surely, she said, that wasn't a coincidence. Standing beside her, Edwards unleashed his Tom Cruise smile, his deep-blue eyes twinkling.