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Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...
When agents finally did discover Latta, they brought in dogs to search for possible explosives and interrogated the intruder outside. "They wanted to know everything about me," Latta recalls. "Did I have anything against Reagan? What are my politics? Had I ever been in a psychiatric institution? Had I ever been in jail...
Then he was turned over to Washington police, charged with unlawful entry and locked up. During the five days it took him to arrange $1,000 bail, a courtappointed psychiatrist interviewed him and learned that Latta had voluntarily spent some time in a mental hospital last year. In addition, the psychiatrist reported, Latta "hears voices saying, 'You blew...
...Although Latta has a master's degree in mechanical engineering, he works as a meter reader for the Denver water department. Among his other claims to fame, Latta holds the Denver meter-reading record: 600 in a single day. Says his supervisor: "He is a phenomenon of accuracy and speed...
Whether pixilated or merely adventurous, Latta, who turns 46 this week, is hardly regretful about his unguided White House tour. Although he admits it was "a mistake," he notes that "it was the high point of being in Washington." If convicted of unlawful entry, Latta could be sentenced to six months in jail. But because the charge is only a misdemeanor, Washington prosecutors would be powerless to extradite him from Colorado if he did not return voluntarily...