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"No, Mr President I , a Seaman Klosner was relieved at ten o'clock I'"

The President was one of the few politicians whose ego was attuned to people He spoke as graciously to an eight-year-old boy as he did to an eighty-year-old wo them by their Christian names as if he'd known them for years

"Your family Chinese, Lee?"

"No, sir Korean They irated to America in nineteen fifty-two' "Why did you join the Coast Guard?"

"A love of the sea, I guess"

"Do you enjoy catering to old bureaucrats like me?"

Sea hesitated, obviously uneasy "Wellon an icebreaker"

"I' in second to an icebreaker" The President laughed good-naturedly "Re to put in a word to Commandant Collins for a transfer We're old friends"

"Thank you, Mr President," Sea mumbled excitedly

"I'll get your brandies right away"

Just before Tong turned away he flashed a wine sap in the middle of his upper teeth

A HEAVY FOG CREPT OVER the Eagle, s her hull in dahts of a radio antenna on the opposite shore blurred and disappeared Sohostly sound; impossible to tell where it came from The teak decks soon bled moisture and took on a dull sheen under the s of the old creaking pier anchored to the bank

A sic posts around the landscaped slope that gently rose toward George Washington's elegant colonial houarded the nearly invisible yacht

Voice contact was kept by short-wave miniature radios So that both hands could be free at all tients wore earpiece receivers, battery units on their belts and tiny microphones on their wrists

Every hour the agents changed posts,on to the next prescheduled security area while their shift leader wandered the grounds checking the efficiency of the surveillance network