Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .

Now, how much would you pay?

Judging by the bids in the ongoing Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Auction, an audience with Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell is worth more than one with any of the other famous-for-D.C. types who are donating their time and treasure. Breakfast and tea with Al and Andrea was fetching $45,000 as of Tuesday afternoon — about 10 times more than any other lot. (Maybe the bidders are looking for some investing tips?)

The auction, conducted at CharityBuzz.com, benefits the memorial’s mission of supporting defenders of human rights throughout the world.

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Here are some other D.C.-related lots, along with their current prices. The auction ends Friday.

Back to the futures market

With the 2008 presidential candidates’ first quarter campaign finance reports coming out rapid fire, we checked in on the political futures markets at InTrade.com. After all, who better to reveal the impact of the fundraising figures than the people who stand to profit from it? (For the uninitiated, InTrade’s users buy and sell futures contracts on the candidates that pay out $100 if a certain pol is nominated by their party.)

On the Democratic side, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s $26 million haul boosted her price from $49.40 to $52 over the course of Monday. Sen. Barack Obama climbed nearly a half-point, from $28.50 to $28.90, as news leaked that he’d declare about $20 million. John Edwards’ $14 million take actually dropped his stock, from $8.40 to $6.90.

For the GOP, Mitt Romney and his $23 million was the big winner. His price climbed from $14.90 to $17.30. Sen. John McCain’s disappointing $12.5 million dropped his price from $21 to $17, while Rudy Giuliani’s $15 million haul bumped him a half-point from $34.20 to $32.70.

And despite him not having a campaign yet, former Sen. Fred Thompson has moved up since the weekend, from $16.80 to $22.

Up close with Jon Voight

Actor Jon Voight, in town to film “National Treasure 2,” chatted politics with an intimate group over dinner at Teatro Goldini Wednesday night.

Voight said that one of the highlights of his visit to D.C. was a visit with Catholic scholar George Weigel, whose work served as background for Voight’s portrayal of the title character in the TV movie “Pope John Paul II.”

“In all the movies about the pope no one nailed it better than you guys,” Weigel told him.

In addition to filming, Voight also has been promoting “September Dawn,” his film about a massacre carried out by Mormons 150 years ago.

He’s emphasizing that the film isn’t an indictment of Mormonism generally, only of religious extremism and the need for all religions “to confront the sins of the past.” He called Islamic fanaticism “serious business” and referred to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “real evil force.”

He added that the film shouldn’t reflect poorly on Mitt Romney. A self-described “non-partisan,” he said he hasn’t talked to the Mormon presidential candidate about the movie, but he does think that Romney is “presidential material.”

As for who he’s pulling for in 2008, Voight, showing that his time in Washington has made him ever diplomatic said, “It’s just too early.”

D.C. on the calendar of Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith will be in town on May 9 to receive an award at the Lupus Foundation of America’s annual gala at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Malcolm Jamal-Warner, of “The Cosby Show” fame, will emcee the event.

And we also hear that a certain dreamy pop idol with a big voice will be on hand to perform. Stay tuned.

A nickname for Ginsburg

Anyone who has seen Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg knows that, although she’s big on law, she’s short on physical stature. Some of the employees who work around her in the Supreme Court Building find her diminutive size rather endearing and have taken to calling her “Little Tweety Bird,” a moniker they use only within their small circle.

But, lest you think that Ginsburg might rule such a nickname as “out of order,” that same circle insists that it’s a kind nickname, and one meant to reflect the notion that they feel very protective of Ginsburg.