From “The Magazine Life,” a column written in 1985 by John Mack Carter, director of magazine development at Hearst:
The favorite investigative reporter of Jack Limpert, editor of the Washingtonian, is John Pekkanen.
In doing a story on emergency care in Washington, Pekkanen got to the surgeon who had operated on President Reagan after the assassination attempt.
The “dumb” question he asked the surgeon was this:
“Why did you remove the bullet from the President’s chest?”
The surgeon answered:
“There wasn’t really any medical reason to remove the bullet, but I thought to myself, if I sew the President up and leave the bullet in there, what the hell is the press going to say?”
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