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The Press Gallery was just inundated with human beings.

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Our 10 or 12 telephone booths were occupied;

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you couldn’t get a line out, you couldn’t get a line in;

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and it became apparent some 12, 15, 20 minutes later

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that the story was now unfolding elsewhere,

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and the Press Gallery was not a prime location to cover it,

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except for, perhaps, individuals like me

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who were a bit of an eyewitness.

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So, it finally dispersed, and

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in 44 years, I never witnessed another day . . .

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I have seen some crushing crowds in the press galleries,

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but not to equal that moment and that drama.