Of course, such sway has a way of becoming noticed, and of fostering enemies. Of Offie, an awed observer once remarked that “either he was going to be Secretary of State some day or his body was going to be found floating down the Potomac river.” Within a very short time of his arrival at OPC, an ever-growing number of people were determined to see that, at least figuratively, he suffered the latter fate. One such nemesis was to be found in an office a mere stone’s throw away from the Rat Palace, in the Department of Justice building at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue.
