Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington agog: Who took Carter's briefing book ?
Even some veteran Washington reporters protested that the story was being vastly overplayed. They blamed the yearning of their colleagues for excitement during a summertime news lull and one of the less attractive residuals of Watergate afflicting too much of the press: the fear of underplaying-and being beaten on...
Administration officials gave those hazy and conflicting accounts last week to a congressional subcommittee probing a revelation that Ronald Reagan may have got an unfair advantage during the 1980 presidential campaign from a purloined briefing book. Both Baker and Stockman confirmed that they had received one of President Carter'...
The ACSR meets twice a year with a subcommittee of the Corporation called the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR). On April 4, the entire ACSR joined the four-man CCSR for breakfast at the Faculty Club, expecting an hour and a half of ethical dialogue. What took place was...
After a briefing in Jalapa, our seven-car caravan, carrying 40 people, was headed for an airstrip outside of town, where a Soviet-built, single-engine biplane was to fly us back to Managua. We were warned of trouble ahead as we passed a roadblock, but our hosts decided to...