Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the problem lies in the changed press conference format. In Franklin Roosevelt's day, the press conference, held in the President's own office, amounted to an informal chat with a handful of regular White House reporters. Harry Truman held his conferences in an Old State Department conference room; yet they remained generally breezy affairs...
What does Dwight Eisenhower think of the Kennedy Administration? After an hour-long chat with the ex-President at his Palm Springs retreat, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt thought he had the answer. Ike had criticized the new Administration, Mundt reported in his weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently...
There were hints that, if Congress still refused to accept his welfare program, Jack Kennedy might go directly to the people with a tested technique of Franklin Roosevelt's, the fireside chat. But even if he does, he will still be careful of congressional blood pressure. Wrote Kennedy's friend and recent dinner host, New York Herald Tribman Rowland Evans: "It is the President's highest intention to maintain a cooperative working relationship with Congress . . . The drill will be compromise and accommodation, except in extreme circumstances...
...Chat on the Phone. With the Russians happily surveying their handiwork, Adlai Stevenson decided that still tougher words were needed if Moscow was to get the point. That afternoon he picked up a phone in a small office high in the U.N.'s glass and steel skyscraper, got through quickly to the White House. "Mr. President, it's time for you to get tough," said Stevenson to John F. Kennedy. "I recommend that at your news conference this evening, you tell the U.S. people and the world that we are ready to oppose any unilateral intervention...
...even though their coffers have been filling with gold at the rate of $1 billion a year while U.S. reserves are shrinking. Last week, under heavy pressure from the U.S. to help stanch the drain on U.S. gold, West Germany finally agreed to ante up. After a chat between Kennedy and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, the West Germans announced a long-range foreign aid program of about $1 billion a year...