From the White House Correspondents Association on the presidency and the press. This is just over an hour. Hello . Is everybody ready . If dr. Kumar would sit down. Thank you all for staying for the second panel. After that lively beginning. Im alexis simendinger, and i am a correspondent with the hill. I am delighted to be able to talk to colleagues that i know well and have known over several White House Administrations. Margaret from bloomberg. Steve from reuters. Before i get started, could each of you run down the row and remind everybody of how many president s you have covered . I know you are really young, but go ahead. Steve i started covering the midpoint of george h. W. Bushs white house. I came in at 1990, before cell phones were a thing. I have covered five president s. Alexis five. Margaret i moved back to washington in 2005, so i was here for the second part of the presidency of george w. Bush. But i did not start covering the white house fulltime until barack obama, Wh
Bill Ott deserves to rest, and it’s not simply because he turned 100 this month at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton.That’s too simple. You have to go back to the 1930s, when Ott was about 10 years old and had already developed a deep loyalty.