THE PRESIDENCY: All's Well

Outside the Army's Walter Reed Hospital two little girls, outfitted in matching red coats, slipped away from their mother and pushed their way to the front of the crowd. They got there just in time to meet the President of the U.S. as he strode hatless and grinning out of the hospital door and down the steps. Jovially, he shook the hand of the first, tousled the hair of the second, then stepped into a waiting limousine and was driven away.

The cluster of patients, nurses and passers-by had just seen for itself...

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