we'll see

 

------- [excerpt from All The President's Men.  Carl Bernstein / Bob Woodward.  1974.  Simon & Schuster] ------

        Maybe she could convince him?  Bernstein smiled, trying to suggest a good-natured conspiracy.

        She laughed.  "We'll see," she said.

        There was a pretty fair bike shop in McLean, and Bernstein drove there to kill a couple of hours and look halfheartedly for a replacement for his beloved Raleigh.  But his mind was on Jeb Magruder.  He had picked up a profoundly disturbing piece of information that day:  Magruder was a bike freak.  

Bernstein had trouble swallowing the information that a bicycle nut could be a Watergate bugger.  And Magruder really was a card-carrying bicycle freak who had even ridden his 10-speed to the White House every day.  Nobody would ever steal Jeb Magruder's bike, at least not there.  

Bernstein knew that, because he had ridden his bike to the White House on July 14--not the Raleigh, but a Holdsworth that he had had built in London--and as he went through the gate he knew no one would get near it.

        So Bernstein had rested his bike against the wall of the little guardhouse at the entrance and not bothered to lock it.  He was there to hear Vice President Agnew talk about cutting red tape to get help to victims of the Great Flood caused by Hurricane Agnes.  And he had run into Ken Clawson in the hallway.

        "You guys back at the  Post are going to bark up the wrong tree one too many times on Watergate," Clawson had said.

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on You Tube, find the video titled

Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away (1957)

uploader / channel:  Marvin Pollei

...and listen.  It's the Bo Diddley beat!

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