Panetta also knew how to roll with Clinton’s famous nocturnal habits. “I remember it was two thirty, three o’clock in the morning, and I get a call from the president and I said, ‘Holy cow, what’s going on?’ And he said, ‘Leon, are you watching Fritz Hollings on C-SPAN?’ And I said, ‘Are you kidding me, Mr. President?’ I said, ‘Nobody in the country is watching Fritz Hollings on C-SPAN right now. Everybody’s asleep, and you should be asleep too.’ ” Bowles, who got his share of midnight calls, says they were
