April 21
White House
It was Sunday, so I expected to find it relatively quiet at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Pendleton would be there; he usually was. He believed that the voters elected him to stay and work, not golf every weekend. So, I thought I had a good chance of catching him at the helm, even though I didn’t give any notice.
When he assigned me to look into this matter, the President gave me a code to give the Secret Service at the White House gate. He assured me that it would provide immediate access in case I found anything that he would want to see right away. The same code could be used, along with a certain phone number, to be patched in to Pendleton if I was to call in. I thought about using that first, but I was on a pretty short schedule. I had to get back to Vienna to unwi
