 Jill looked back at me with a confused panic expression. It was as if she had just received horrible news and was about to run out of the room and into some kind of a family emergency. Uh-hi, she said. Then she glanced over to her right. Oh, I had not seen the president up close in some time. I had skipped this season's holiday parties and, preoccupied with covering Trump's legal and political dramas, I hadn't been showing up at his White House. Unlike Trump, he wasn't very accessible to the press anyway. Why bother? Biden had done a few interviews. He wasn't prone to interrupting his schedule with a surprise media circus in the Oval Office.