Pool Report: Obama at Walter Reed

Pool Report #2

The POTUS left Walter Reed a little after 4 pm, staying about 30-40 minutes longer than the hour he had been expected to spend visiting wounded soldiers. He was still on schedule, though, helicoptering out at 4:09 for the short trip back to the White House.

Note - on the way to Walter Reed from the Carter Baron Amphitheater area, there were two clusters of cheering people (perhaps 20 or so in each cluster) at street corners on the motorcade route. Some carried signs saying ``Mary House.'' A few others stood on their porches and took pictures.

On the way back, there were about a dozen people at a street corner watching the motorcade go by. One woman held a brown carboard sign with ``No Civilian Deaths'' written on it, but Your Pool, cruising at usual motorcade speed, could not make out what was written underneath it, or what the sign-holder intended to communicate.

Your Pool went separately by van to and from the White House in vans. The POTUS did not speak to Your Pool after leaving Walter Reed.

Susan Milligan
Boston Globe