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Maybe it was a stretch, I thought driving in Monday morning. Maybe it was a bit much to have a local county weekly’s Horse Editor requesting credentials for a White House event. Was I qualified? Was I security-appropriate? Was I ready? More importantly was I headed northbound down a southbound street?
Momentary panic set in as I approached the Pennsylvania Avenue manse and found many roads closed for peace conference security. After circling the city a few times, I found a garage and dashed — the wrong way first - down 17th Street to the assigned gate. Nervous and jittery, I lined up for the credential check behind a pair of foreign journalists arguing loudly in Arabic. My eyes widened.
My belt buckle briefly alarmed the security detail, but presently I was inside, hurrying to join a knot of video and still cameras already corralled on the East lawn.
As 1 eased into the group, I bumped elbows with another photographer. I turned to apologize, coming face-to-face with veteran AP shooter Ron Edmonds: he won the Pulitzer for a series of 1981 photos of President Reagan being shot near the Washington Hilton.
I blushed. He was my hero.
“Sorry”" I murmured with a gulp. “This ain't Fauquier hunt country anymore, sweetie,” I whispered to myself as I stepped onto the curb to stay out of the way while keeping an eye on the main entrance.
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