Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yet Haig's failings are less serious than chronic shortcomings at the White House. In an effort to keep the National Security Council from becoming an alternative State Department, a role it took on in the Carter and Nixon Administrations, the White House has denied National Security Adviser Richard...
Though he may not have been hurdling any tables, Reagan was gradually easing himself back into his job. He placed two dozen or so calls during the week to Congressmen and others to lobby for their support of his economic program. Assisted by Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, he began drafting the...
Returning from a nine-day visit to Western Europe and the Middle East, a high U.S. official gave a background briefing to reporters aboard Secretary of State Alexander Haig's jet. The official who, of course, was quickly revealed to be Haig himself admitted that in the future he...
Once aboard his own 707 jet, however, Haig plunged into work, poring over thick briefing books throughout the trip as his wife Patricia sat across from him.
As yet another week of suspense passed in the drama of Poland, the armies of the Warsaw Pact were still waiting for orders from the 14 men who make up the Soviet Politburo. Most of those leaders are old and weary. Some, like Leonid Brezhnev, are chronically ill and sometimes...