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In this priceless gem (to me, anyway) from the Vince Palamara archives, Vince does a presentation on his findings with regard to the Secret Service & the JFK assassination, while the famous, funny, and somewhat cantankerous former White House reporter Sarah McClendon (7/8/1910-1/8/2003) both introduces Vince and questions him (in Washington, D.C., for the COPA conference, October 1995, at the famous Omni Shoreham Hotel). Part 3 of 4. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Mc... For over half a century, presidents had found themselves confronted by her questions — often shouted — about treatment of veterans, government secrecy and other issues. "She was one of the greatest newspaperwomen Washington ever saw," said Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House for decades and is currently a columnist for Hearst newspapers. "She walked in where angels fear to tread," Thomas said. "She had guts, she asked the questions that should have been asked, and she asked questions for people who had no voice." She said McClendon "made the veins stand out" on President Eisenhower's forehead. President Clinton sometimes seemed amused by McClendon. "All of us who called on her in news conferences did so with a mixture of respect and fear, I suspect, because we would never quite know what she might say," Clinton said in a statement. "I couldn't help but admire her spirit." Her missives to chief executives sometimes met with mixed results. At a 1962 press conference, she asked President John F. Kennedy whether he knew "two well-known security risks" were working at the State Department. Kennedy defended the men and rebuked her publicly. He also continued to call on her. "I try not to" recognize her, the president once said, "but I'm drawn to her."