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"Got your crew set up, Curt?" Thompson asked jovially

Mayo leaned back, pushed a baseball cap to the rear of a head forested with billowy silver hair and gazed up through orange tinted glasses "I don't see anything worth capturing for posterity"

Sarcasm ran off Thompson like rainwater down a spout "In fiveto step from his house, walk to the barn and start up a tractor"

"Bravo," Mayo grunted "What does he do for an encore?"

Mayo's voice had a resonance to it that , with every word enunciated with the sharpness of a bayonet

"He is going to drive back and forth across the field with a rass"

"That's alfalfa, city slicker"

"N"atever," Tho

"Anyway, I thought it would be a good chance to roll tape on him in the rural environment he loves best"

Mayo leveled his gaze into Thooing down, Sonny?"

" Sorry? "

"Why the hide-and-seek? The President hasn't put in an appearance for over a week"

Thompson stared back, his nut-brown eyes unreadable "He's been extre up on his hoton"

Mayo wasn't satisfied "I've never known a President to go this long without facing the cameras"

"Nothing devious about it," said Tho of national interest to say-"