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"Stop the tape!" he shouted

Startled, Mitchell pressed a button on the recorder and the ie froze

"The hands!" Mayo said excitedly "The hands on the steering wheel!"

"So he's got ten fingers," mumbled Mitchell, his expression sour

"So what?"

"The President wears only a wedding band Look again No ring on the er you see a good-sized sparkler And the pinkie on the right-"

"I see what you mean," Montrose interrupted "A flat blue stone in a silver setting, probably an amethyst"

"Doesn't the President usually sport a Timex watch with an Indian silver band inlain with turquoise?" observed Mitchell, beco

"I think you're right," Mayo recalled

"The detail is fuzzy, but I'd say that's one of those big Rolex chronometers on his wrist"

Mayo pounded a fist on his knee "That clinches it The President is known never to buy or wear anything of foreign manufacture"

"Hold on," Montrose said slowly "This is crazy We're talking about the President of the United States as if he wasn't real"

"Oh, he's flesh and bone all right," said Mayo, "but the body sitting on that tractor belongs to someone else"

"If you're right, you've got a live bomb in your hands," said Montrose

Mitchell's enthusias for clams in Kansas Seeo on the air, Curt, and clai the President unless you have documented proof"