In those days, it seemed like everyone read everything we wrote. If you called some and said you were from the washington post, they called you back. I used to listen to michael every day on the phone with the source on capital hill. That individual had access to everything, but he didn't mind ratting people out. It was heaven. So there's one member of this eco system that i'm most interested in - Sid wolf. Patty said, 'i love sid' But I think i was the most sceptical of sid, yes? Cause you were like a right wing lunet.
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.
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