time. he saw a lot of food left that the staff had been eating and the answer he kept getting is i have nothing for you from the one press aide on duty which doesn t mean there s no story. he just won t going to tell him. john just touched it out and got in there and finally got to jody powell and said i know something is going on and at that point he had his camera man put the lights on on the lawn on the white house, and he said i m going out there. i know something s going on and i need more and i ve got enough and jody wasn t happy about it, but jody did arrange to finally tell him the details, and john had to bargain to get it on before johnny carson ended the tonight show so he would get the national audience which did not make jody happy, but i think it made the viewers happy to know what was going on so he did get the story and got the merriman smith award for breaking it. everyone thinks that the white house is a great beat but the problem is it s almost like feeding time