Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the President and Defense Secretary Harold Brown, who appeared haggard but resolutely amiable and relaxed when he held a large televised press briefing at the Pentagon, revealed an unsurprising but well-concealed fact: military training for a rescue had begun last November, shortly after militant students took over the...
At week's end, one of the most anguished assessments of the domestic consequences of the rescue attempt came from a senior Democratic Senator. After being briefed by officials in the State Department, he too expressed concern that political considerations might have figured in Carter's decision to...
Later that afternoon the President entered the White House briefing room to announce his new policies. Declaring that the U.S. had made every effort to gain the release of the hostages on "honorable, peaceful and humanitarian terms," he said that "the Iranian government can no longer escape full responsibility by...
There are slow moments in Wiseman's two hours, but that is probably the price for this kind of documentary, which allows people to be themselves. "I wish I was a soldier coming through here in World War II," muses one man, ogling the local girls from his tank...
Two directors of a relief operation yesterday expressed optimism about the future of Cambodia at a Kennedy School of Government press briefing.