bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w. s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn t want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop that was assigned to that squad car 80, assigned to that patrol area which included the watergate hotel, was getting drunk at a bar at about 2:00 in the morning. he couldn t respond. so he called the dispatcher back and said look, i can t look i m low on gas is what he said and so then they called the backups who were the three undercover cops, they show up at the watergate plain clothes in 1972 ford sedan, and the spotter