Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's noisy debate over Jimmy Carter's debate book refuses to fade away. President Reagan last week made a rare appearance at a meeting of his senior aides and ordered them all to cooperate fully with Justice Department and congressional investigations into how his top 1980 campaign...
Colorado Senator Gary Hart, McGovern's 1972 campaign director and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination, was the most unequivocal. "Without hesitation and unopened, the briefing book or any materials from a rival's campaigri that came into our hands would be returned, Hart asserted. "I have...
Meanwhile, Republican Congressman Robert Walker of Pennsylvania accused the Democrats of handling the investigation as "business as usual, while they have special prosecutors and all of that for the briefing-book scandal." Many Republicans also claim that the difference in publicity being given the two controversies reveals, in the words...
The press conference questioning last week of Ronald Reagan, polite but persistent, surprised even the journalists themselves. William Safire called it the "tensest" Reagan conference so far. The controversy over Jimmy Carter's briefing book may soon fade, but the sharper questioning suggests a changing attitude in the press...
Cannon recently angered the White House with a Page One report that the President had been "rambling" and "confused" in briefing a handful of reporters. But Cannon insisted, "I care about him. I don't ever want to take a cheap shot at him." He thinks Reagan gets the...