Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Questions about Noriega and Meese dominated the nationally broadcast question-and-answer session in the White House briefing room. It was his most extensive meeting with the press since a news conference Feb. 24.
January 1988: Administrators step up University efforts against the union by distributing a briefing book to supervisors. Administrators also hold closed meetings to urge support for the University's position.
Many of Prestowitz's observations are firsthand, since he has lived in or visited Japan many times over the past 24 years. He studied the Japanese language at Keio University in Tokyo and later helped manage a Swiss executive-search firm in Japan. Trading Places is especially full of fresh...
"This is the first time in the history of the Soviet Union that they have moved by aggression into another country and then had to withdraw," Shultz said later at a White House press briefing.
Foreign policy remains the arena where Jackson's radical agenda most explosively collides with conventional political norms. Jackson's world view all but depicts South Africa as a greater threat than the Soviet Union. The candidate's formal briefing paper on "promoting real security" does not even mention in passing...