I wish I could remember who the President was at the time this incident took place. Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd were drunk (what else is new?). They needed to get a flight to attend someone's funeral and contacted the President (I believe it was the President or one of his cabinet members) to get a military flight out so they could get there in time for the services. I'm of the mind that the reason they were running late was because they had been out on the town boozing. They were pretty persistent in their pleas and it was quite obvious to the person they were talking to, that they were both smashed. I'm almost sure they got their requested flight.
I've just written John McCaslin of the Washington Times as I believe it was the Times that I originally found the article in, but I can't be sure. I'm hoping he will respond, but thought I see if I could job any Freepers memories on this one. I'd like to be able to find a hard copy so that I can send it around to folks like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/622355/posts
"Dodd and Kennedy were also reported to have made a 'human sandwich' with a waitress at La Brasserie, another Capitol Hill restaurant. The report had it that Kennedy threw the woman on Dodd, who was slumped in a chair, and then jumped on top of her. She was said to have run screaming from the room."