Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brokaw was far from alone in treating Geneva as a stage set. CBS's Dan Rather also anchored his show outdoors, and his colleague Bill Moyers recorded commentary while walking, vapor-breathed, past city sights. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings used a Soviet news briefing as dramatic background noise.
In other respects also, the U.S. position appeared so hard-line as to raise considerable doubt that new arms-control talks could make much progress, even if Shultz and Gromyko fulfilled the stated purpose of their talks and agreed on procedures for resuming substantive negotiations. As outlined last week in...
As a freshman Congressman in 1965, Republican Barber Conable of upstate New York sat in the East Room of the White House, fascinated by the scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of...
At the reception after the briefing, Johnson scooped up hors d'oeuvres (oar doves, he called them) in both hands and crammed his mouth full. Then he dispatched two drinks with resounding gurgles.
On his first day on the witness stand, General William C. Westmoreland described how he made frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection...