One aide, Colleen Wynn, a cardiovascular special procedures technician, leaned over the patient.
I saw the aide lean down from his horse to ask a question, saw the officer's head turn toward us in acknowledgment of the answer.
One aide leaned over to a reporter and said: "Did he just propose a national sales tax?"
Although Administration officials said no decision had been made, people involved in the deliberations said senior aides were leaning toward recommending that the bill be signed.
His closest aide was still leaning over his own telephone, his back to the President, talking.
When he cannot wipe his face, aides lean down and blot it for him.
An aide leaned in from the hallway, called out: "Gate Twenty-One just reported.
An aide leaned forward and whispered to him.
The aide leaned in to me.
None has been chosen, although aides are leaning away from a nighttime speech, one White House official said today.