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For a while. but the scene at the white house was, well, funeralial is a silly word to use for this, but that's what it was, it was, as they say, a very momentary entrance into the white house, but i remember filing the bulletin that johnston stepped into the white house that was now his and with that, i covered some side stories. one of my more striking memories is of the funeral procession the following week, up connecticut avenue to the cathedral and what was said to be the greatest collection of world leaders ever assembled since the congress of vienna. as i walked up connecticut, i looked...

Bureau, and had just come back into the bureau, and my first instinct was to pick up a telephone and try to make a call to one of my congressional sources. you couldn't make a call. every circuit in washington was instantly -- sounding busy. you couldn't get a dial tone. so really my first piece of the story was when i was sent to the white house to cover johnston's return from dallas, so i was there when he first entered the white house. interestingly, he headed it only momentarily long enough to pass through and go to his vice presidential office, where he worked for the first days of his pr...