Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story about possible P.O.W.s in Laos [June 1] describes retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz as "a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam." The implication is that his service consisted of briefing the press in Saigon, and that he has no business now leading commandos...
White House staffers privately conceded that Reagan had been off form. In fact, it was perhaps the worst public performance of his presidency. Aides were quick with excuses. Reagan was a little tired, they said, because the White House air conditioning had not worked well the night before. The air...
The statement was released Monday morning, after Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government proudly announced the bombing as a preemptive, defensive attack on a nuclear plant that, it insisted, would have had the capacity soon to produce weapons to be used against Israel. Haig and Reagan, who had both...
The President's intelligence briefing is assembled in a black leather folder, hand-carried upstairs and placed on the desk in the Oval Office to await Reagan's arrival around 9 a.m. When his top aides and Secretary of State Alexander Haig assemble at 9:15, the President...
Franco-U.S. Relations. The Reagan Administration, which had been building a closer relationship with Giscard over the past few months, was caught flat-footed by Mitterrand's election. Indeed, the Paris embassy had confidently predicted a Giscard victory (but not the CIA, whose analysts correctly picked Mitterrand). Briefing...