To: Sully- who wrote (55609 ) 3/7/2007 5:49:53 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (3) | Respond to This guy clearly wrote this during the trial planning to publish somewhere. He's a writer, had worked for the Post, knew a bunch of the witnesss socially:You know someone on the prospective witness list?Bob Woodward was my boss at the Washington Post for three or four years. Until a year or so ago, Tim Russert was a neighbor. His back yard and mine shared an alley and a basketball hoop where our sons played. I attended a few neighborhood barbecues in his back yard. I went to grade school with its author, Maureen Dowd. (Maureen had a crush on my brother Kevin. Her older brother Kevin was something of a hero to my youngest brother Brendan after he showed up to coach his grade school football team one Saturday morning in a convertible, with a gorgeous woman in a black cocktail dress in the front seat, and what appeared to be an empty bottle of champagne on the floor. They'd obviously been up all night. He obviously had game.)My favorite court visitor was an old Post friend, Mike Isikoff of Newsweek (President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky may still have nightmares of him sneaking into their closet.) Many years ago in San Francisco, he stayed with us while reporting on drug policy for the Post. Driving back from an interview with a marijuana grower in Humboldt County, he told us he stopped to check his suitcase. Sure enough, the grower had “gifted” him a bag of Humboldt Lightning. Isikoff immediately returned it.Here's how much clout I had with Woodward. When the Washington Star newspaper shut down, I told him, "There's a really good writer from the Star you should hire, Maureen Dowd." Woodward knew her writing but... "We have a lot of good writers. We need more investigative reporters.")
