Well, that is, if you didn’t count nine trees killed just below the Rose Garden, a smashed water fountain at the lawn’s south end, a hundred feet of smashed fence on Ellipse Road and a squashed pine tree on the east side of the upper Ellipse park. Six pairs of landing jacks did major damage to carefully coiffed green turf in both lawns. The public, used to easy access to Ellipse, complained loudly behind the new fence that blocked off Ellipse Road and which enclosed the entire Ellipse. Park Service people handled the folks outside the fence. Secret Service agents with rifles walked the inner perimeter of the Ellipse fence, making clear it was now part of the White House grounds. But they made it, with the nose of the Blue Sky resting just twenty feet from the pillars of the South Portico of the White House. Behind him the command pedestal lowered to deck level. Jane stepped out of her command seat, finished pulling off her vacsuit, and looked his way. “Bill, you might want to get rid of the remains of your vacsuit.”
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