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...half a dozen dark-suited Secret Service men, TV crews in the corridor snapped on their lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway???on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read an opening statement...
There is such a thing as journalistic luck. When President Harding died suddenly and unexpectedly, a representative of the Associated Press was waiting outside the Presi- dent's door in the hallway??? almost deserted because it was thought that the President's health was improving. Regardless of this fact an Associated Press man had been on hand continuously. As soon as the President collapsed, the reporter was away with the news. Telegraph operators had been ordered not to leave their instruments. Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness...
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