"President Nixon's Middle East visit," reports White House Correspondent Dean Fischer, "is the most exhausting story I've ever covered. Like most reporters accompanying the President, I get only about three hours of sleep each night. It's an early-morning-to-late-night job just to report the storyI write my files in the wee hours of the morning."
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in...
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