By Om Puri
02/17/18
A cool spring Friday afternoon where the grass and air in the rose garden was perfumed and the air hot enough but crisp enough to be perfect. It was a beautiful day. In the Oval Office the President sat at the old desk that was clear except three or four pages of a memoranda. He didn’t know what yet as he picked them up and tossed them in his hands into a single file. He began looking over the words and a few minutes passed before the door to his office opened and his secretary was there in her blue dress and pale stockings, an older woman who was in her seventies and her hair white. She was there with the reporter Sean Hannity who wanted the interview that day filmed with the Oval Office American flag and the U.S. stamp of the eagle in every shot in the background of Donald Trump. He was all smiles, his hair greased back, grey, black peppered and brown. He was stocky, in a bullish man-way, shoulders broad. He and the President shook hands and paused, looking at each other, then had a somewhat awkward hug thinking it was time.