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Movers and Shakers
Patrick Fitzgerald arriving at the courthouse, where he broke the long, suspenseful wait by moving chairs.
(By Larry Morris -- The Washington Post)
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Eavesdropping on all melodramatic media intoning was Larry Durstin, 58, a writer from Cleveland. He planned a trip to Washington to be here when the indictments landed. "I've been following this case so closely, I wanted to be here when history is in the making," he said. "I would have liked to have seen Karl Rove indicted."
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The scene shifted to Justice, where Fitzgerald strode to a podium a few minutes after Cheney released a statement saying he had accepted Libby's resignation "with deep regret." Do they coordinate these things? Somebody must, in some control room somewhere.
"Good afternoon, I'm Pat Fitzgerald," the prosecutor said in a seventh floor briefing room that was clogged with about 150 reporters, cameramen and various Justice staffers.
The special counsel talked fast, in short, clipped cadences, appearing slightly nervous at first. He had a solemn, slightly sunken face that looked at once boyish and somewhat older than his 44 years. He took the first question from NBC's Pete Williams, the spokesman for the Pentagon during Cheney's stint as defense secretary during the George H.W. Bush administration.
At that moment, as Fitzgerald discussed Libby's legal peril, Libby's former boss was demonstrating that political life and the war against terror go on, and CNN split its screen to make that clear. At Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Ga., there was a huge flag and soldiers in camouflage garb standing cheek to jowl. As Cheney strode to the lectern, an amputee in a wheelchair in the front row clapped what was left of his arms.
"A great event," Cheney said, adding that "I'm guessing it was a little more exciting when Jessica Simpson and the Dukes of Hazzard came to visit."
"Control yourselves," the vice president added to the laughing crowd.
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Out in the city, word was filtering, but slowly.
