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. on Monday,arch, en shot at but he had nothe scene of the shooting safely
uiner men had been hurt. Almost Immediately, Dick Allen
' called and asked me to come over to the Situation Room at the Whiteaway. eft imtnediately. It took about twenty minutes to getriver and reach the Situation Room. earned that thebeen taken to George Washington Hospital. earned also that Jimbeen hit in the head andecret Service man and ahad been'tiit and were in the
I arrived, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General,of Defense, Dick Allen, the Secretary of the Treasury, andto the President were there. The Attorney General reportedname and said that he came from Evergreen, Colorado. IHcMahon, CIA's Deputy Director for Operations, to askame check
be made on John W. Hinckley, Evergreen, Colorado, and asked that any Indication of follow-up activities or reaction to the shooting that came in from our forces around the world be phoned in to mehe Situation Room. We informed the Secret Service that CIA had no information on Hinckley. In addition, CIAlash message worldwide asking for any information that night bear on the assassination attempt. Responses were passed Immediately to the Secret Service and FBI unevaluated. The Secretary of State was the senior Cabinet officer present and functioned as chairman and sought to maintain orderhe discussion. This seemed to be by common consent. He and Jim Baker at the hospital were the contact points between the Cabinet and the developments at the hospital.
Secretary of Defense consulted with those gathered inRoom as to what should be done about putting our militaryalert and took responsibility for any steps that were called for in notification of the families of the victims, arranging for their
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