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| He had always been good with languages and when the first Gulf War broke out he began learning different Middle-Eastern dialects because he wanted to be President and had always been a man who played to his strengths. Greeting dignitaries in their native tongue sometimes went a long way to showing respect and earning a small amount of trust in the first few seconds of a meeting when first impressions were made. Now, though, he was using his talent to gather information, even though he wasn�t sure what, if anything, he could do with it once he had it. He knew enough of their language to get the gist of the clipped conversations the ten men he could see and hear were having.
And for the first time in his life, John Hoynes wished he was wrong about something. It seemed to Donna that she was the only assistant who had been able to make a speedy return to the White House, though she knew that, logically, she wasn�t the only one. No one would be able to tell, however, by the amount of work she was doing. It had started off normally. She pulled files and organized the interns, set up multiple phone lines in the Roosevelt Room, made sure that the guards sent up the food she had ordered as soon as it arrived, got interns to deliver the pizzas and sodas, and then she made a few calls to cancel the next day�s appointments because she knew that the situation would not end well and that it would not end quickly so the only thing left was for everyone to be ready to do damage control once it did end. She made sure that the Vice President�s wife was taken care of, a task that was more because she had gotten to know Susanna Hoynes on the campaign trail and wanted to make sure she was alright and kept up to date and not so much because it was her job, and she made all the phone calls that Josh wanted her to make. She rounded up the Communications staff since Cathy and Ginger had gotten stuck in traffic and Bonnie was had her hands full with Toby�s schedule and a very confused speechwriting staff, most of whom didn�t have clearance to know what was happening. She checked with Charlie and Mrs. Landingham to see if there was anything that the President needed and she found the file that Margaret had �hidden� from Leo�in the filing cabinet under it�s proper heading in the Moss filing system that had become the White House filing system not long after the assistant pool realized how efficient it was�and delivered it to the Chief of Staff in the Oval Office. |
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