<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; border: 0px; font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 57.985px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 61.036px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The White House Assembles Its Defense</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though they’re thinking a war room might help</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To avoid all these stinging defeats,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It seems clear that the aide they should add<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is a special assistant for tweets.</span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> I</div></div></div></div></body></html>