Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter's briefing book may soon fade, but the sharper questioning suggests a changing attitude in the press. Antagonism between the President and the press corps has been at its lowest level in 20 years. The civility has been welcome, but has the public interest been served? Lou Cannon, White House correspondent of the Washington Post and author of a first-rate biography of Ronald Reagan, says, "I think he's getting a fairer press than he deserves. I think we should be more critical...
...number of Cannon's colleagues do not believe they are being charmed, disarmed or taken in, but they do think they are being outmaneuvered by Reagan's people and are frustrated. Some of these irritations were discussed recently on Hodding Carter's Inside Story on PBS. Jody Powell remembered how he worried, as Jimmy Carter's press secretary, about whether a bitter and cynical press corps had become "a permanent fixture in American politics." Under Reagan, Powell acknowledged, the hostility on both sides has ebbed: "Most reporters I talk to say they generally sort of like...
...Cannon recently angered the White House with a Page One report that the President had been "rambling" and "confused" in briefing a handful of reporters. But Cannon insisted, "I care about him. I don't ever want to take a cheap shot at him." He thinks Reagan gets the benefit of the doubt on "marginal or close calls because of his genuineness." Reagan also gains, Cannon believes, from a new mood of "a Restoration, not of the Johnson and Nixon imperial presidencies, but of a larger-than-life presidency. Everyone wants our Presidents to be up on a pedestal...
...Sandinista government. The killings could hardly have been an accident: the men were almost certainly identifiable as civilians; the attackers probably shot from no more than 150 to 300 yards away. An American journalist who had been in Sandinista encampments in recent weeks had witnessed a soldier firing a cannon at the same stretch of road. When asked why, the soldier said, "A vehicle was passing...
...called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that psychological strain itself could cause dramatic hormonal changes and hence physiological symptoms. Selye showed that when the fight-or-flight response becomes chronic, as it does in battle, long-term chemical changes occur, leading to high blood pressure, an increased rate of arteriosclerosis, depression...