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Invitations to the White House are de rigueurfor Nobel prizewinners, but candor in the White House press room is not. Thus there were more than a few red faces at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week when conservative University of Chicago Economist George Stigler, 71, after a little chat with President...
But Arnold knew where the cameras were. He was quiescent for the first two hours of a briefing for 60 Republican congressional candidates with the likes of White House Staffers Ed Meese, Jim Baker and David Stockman, but when the President stepped to the podium for the super pep talk...
Moscow had snooped in Swedish waters before. In October 1981, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy...
On March 22, after all our efforts to negotiate with Iranian officials had proved fruitless, Mondale, Vance and I had a full briefing from our military leaders about the latest plans for a rescue mission, which were much more feasible than those presented at the outset of the ordeal. But...
To most of the public, and probably to many of her colleagues, Woodruff took a big step down. But as she contends in her newly published autobiography, "This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House " (Addison-Wesley; $12.95), covering her beat can be a stunted form of journalism. For a...