CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war mom whose vigil outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch has drawn national attention, finally got to meet the man for whom she's been waiting. At 10:30 this morning, the Presidential limosine slowed as it approached a shocked Mrs. Sheehan and about 600 supporters at their makeshift protest camp. The President opened the door and briskly strode toward Mrs. Sheehan.
"Bring it on," the President shouted to her in a loud voice. He then led the nation's most famous anti-war protestor into a nearby tent. Secret service agents made certain no one else entered. A short time later, Mrs. Sheehan came running out to grab two of the vigil candles being held by peace protestors and scurried back into the tent with them. Ten and one-half minutes later, the two emerged; Mrs. Sheehan was applying lipstick, and President Bush was fixing his hair. A protestor took this photograph as the President bid Mrs. Sheehan farewell. Mrs. Sheehan then spoke privately with her fellow protestors and, according to one, said, "I got what I came for."
Before he sped off, Mr. Bush opened the window of the Presidential limosine and told reporters, "Mission accomplished!" He then leaned back in his chair and sighed, a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
At noon today, Mrs. Sheehan's husband, Benjamin "Slats" Sheehan, filed for divorce.
