Diary Entry - 03/17/1982
Key Facts
Four members of a Dutch television crew, filming a report in an area of El Salvador controlled by leftist guerrillas, are killed by government troops during a forty-minute firefight.
* * *
P.M. Haughey of Ireland & his wife arrived. We had a big luncheon in the East room. It was a good get-together. Frank Patterson, the great Irish Tenor & his harpist wife Eily entertained. He explained what “Danny Boy” was before he sang it and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. I never knew it was a mother saying goodbye to her son who was going off to war.
