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...Dickerson:The President was apparently inside the White House working out. And the Secret Service took its regular measures, which of course they don't detail. The Vice President reportedly kept working in his office while all this was going...
TIME White House correspondent John Dickerson, who'd just left a South Lawn press conference about President Bush's tax-cut plan, was on his way to the office when the news broke: A man, waving a handgun in the direction of the White House and threatening to kill himself, had been shot by Secret Service agents. The alleged gunman, later identified as Robert Pickett of Evansville, Ind., was in surgery early Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University Hospital. At an afternoon press conference, held after the arrest, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer emphasized that the President had never been...
...Dickerson: I'm walking down past 15th Street, which is not at all close to the White House. And here we've got two ambulances and about 15 police cars in a two-block area. However, at 1:30, when we got to the White House for the press conference [about the shooting], it was hard to tell anything had happened at all. Except for a few more black Secret Service sedans and vans than usual, it was business as usual...
...With reporting by John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington
Luckily for us, we have two of the best addicts on the beat: Jay Carney and John Dickerson, who got to know each other so well following George W. Bush that they and their wives had planned to go on vacation together right after the Nov. 7 election. (I hope they were able to get their deposits back.) "What most intrigues me about Bush is how he uses low expectations to his advantage," Jay says. "His opponents judge him by his sometimes awkward public performances and fail to realize that he is a shrewd judge of character with keen political...