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In terms ot major news, this event was small potatoes. Mrs. Bush’s social secretary began shooing the lingering press corps away, clearing the way for a Waiting flotilla of motorcycle cops and black-suited men with earpieces (Secret Service?) to greet PM Ehud Olmert.
“But,” I whined. “The horses. The horses.” Eyes downcast and suitably humble — representing a county weekly, for God’s sakes - I asked the press official if I couldn’t get the horses and Midge Harmon and her family and the White House in the same shot. A set-up for the really, really local press, if you will.
Please. Pretty please?
“Sure, of course.” Julie Adams, and her attendant clipboard shooed the CNN guys away, guiding me by the elbow into the center of driveway. “There ya’ go.”
Click. Click-click. Click-clickclick. I was in heaven. A private audience with Karry and Dempsey, and the whole Harmon clan. Driver Scott Harmon smiled wide, tipping his top hat back.
At last, I figured from 257 shots surely I had one that would do. I strolled down to the press briefing room fear a cup of coffee to help me make it hark to Fauquier, less shy now. I brushed past White House press corps grande dame Helen Thomas, knocking her desk with my camera bag. I was in, indeed, but I had to head out.
“Got whacha need?” I turned It was Ron Edmonds, kind-fared and smiling.
“Yes, sir. Yes, sir,” I said with a gnn over my shoulder, and started walking west.
Home and Field Sports Editor Betsy Parker has covered two Olympics and, now, one White House event in her 20 years with the Times Democrat.
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