Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press conference, also seemed to sense Marley's vulnerability. The singer was slow to respond to questions, and when he did so his words were almost inaudible. He was silent for very difficult questions and the articulate Gregory spoke for him almost every time he could not answer...
...have listened if I had made the speech?" "He thought a long time," Carter recalled, "and he said, 'Well, I listened to your earlier speeches.' And I said, 'No, I want to know if you would have listened last Thursday night.' He said, 'Mr. President, I hate to answer you, but I promise you I'll listen to you on Sunday night.' " If the people did listen, would it mean that Carter can begin pulling the nation ?and his own presidency?out of its "downhill spin"? Much of the discussion at Camp David focused on the need for changes...
...visit to Boston, Senator Ted Kennedy was cornered by a local television reporter. With mike in hand, she dutifully asked the question, and Kennedy coolly responded with the answer. Yes, he had every expectation that President Carter would be renominated, he said, and yes, he fully intended to support him. The reporter was disappointed. "I've heard that answer before," she groused off-camera. "Oh, uh, that's all right," smiled Kennedy, "I, uh, T've heard the question before...
...Reporter James Wooten points out in a recent cover story in the Washington Post magazine recalling that unsuccessful interrogation, both the question and the Senator's coy answer will be analyzed countless more times. The punditry should reach a crest this week as journalists almost everywhere take yet another look at Kennedy and his intentions. The reason for the outpouring: it will be exactly ten years since a car driven by Kennedy plunged off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, next to Martha's Vineyard, and a young female aide drowned...
...answer was simple enough. Satirizing the pop politics of California's Governor Jerry Brown, Trudeau had turned his biting pen on a labor lawyer and Brown contributor, Sidney Korshak, describing him with several harsh characterizations, including "known organized crime figure." While Korshak is no stranger to criminal investigators, the newspapers felt, as the Times put it, that the cartoons were "unfair, irresponsible and unsubstantiated." Callers accused the papers of trying to protect Brown. Said the Guv: "I think it is false and libelous, but I'm flattered by the attention...