Telling the story last Sunday to an appreciative group of people who had volunteered in her campaign, Davis continued: "I got out and spoke to the person on the the line. 'The President wants to speak to you; will you be there for a while?' I said 'of course.' It's 11 o'clock at night; I'll be here whenever he calls.' So sometime later he actually called, and we had one of those phones in the room, and I pushed the wrong extension and we got cut off...."

About five minutes later, someone again called back and said the President is on the line, and "sure enough President Clinton got on the line, and congratulated me and let me know how proud he was of all our efforts here in San Diego." Davis said she told Clinton how much she appreciated his having spoke to a fundraiser during her campaign --an event which she had to skip because the state Legislature had been tied up in budget session. "And I also told him how much my husband Steve was looking forward to joining the (Congressional) Spouses Club with him."

Two days later the Davises went to their hotel lobby to retrieve old phone messages which for some unknown reason had not been delivered to them. "I had been sick, I hat this hat on my head and I looked really frumpy," Davis said of her appearance at the hotel's front desk. Next, the desk clerk is "looking at me, and she is looking at the message that she had printed out for me, and looking at me so strangely. " The message, already two days old, said: "The President wants you to call!"  Donald H. Harrison