Word: chatted
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When the time came to present his proposals, Ford took the unusual step of renting a mobile TV unit and rehearsing his fireside chat at least three times, reading updated versions to try out his delivery of revised wordings. For the first time in his career he read the final speech off a TelePrompTer (one that Walter Cronkite had used previously...
Repeatedly, Rooney tries to phone one private contractor who is presumably performing the innocent task of rewriting all Navy technical manuals on a 9th-grade reading level; no one will talk to Rooney. He stops by to chat with Admiral Frederick Palmer, who is directing the textbook project for the Navy. The Admiral admits that he is not familiar with the name of the company or the contents of the study. Rooney drops in on a congressional committee session to hear a New Hampshire Congressman defend disaster relief for people in ski areas where there is no snow. The reporter...
Last week, after attending his first Ford Cabinet meeting, Rockefeller chatted for an hour with TIME Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. It was his first press interview as Vice President. Still unused to his new title, he slipped once in relating an anecdote and referred to himself as "the Governor." But there was no confusion in his mind over his role in Government or his relationship with Ford. Pressing two fingers together, he declared: "We're like that." The circumspect Rockefeller would not discuss foreign policy ("That is not my field"). He also would not predict...
...world." These lists reveal another, unspoken intent: bringing back people who were shut out of the White House in the Nixon years. At one Ford dinner the President invited Justice William O. Douglas, whom he had sought to impeach only four years ago; the two men had a friendly chat during the evening. At another dinner, Washington Post Owner Katharine Graham, spotting others who, like herself, had long been banned from the Nixon White House, declared with satisfaction: "It's marvelous-all the underground is here." Mrs. Graham was seated between Senator Charles Percy, another Nixon persona non grata...
...Palace (TIME, Dec. 9), a favorite Paris parlor game has been to guess where, how arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that his yearning to escape the pressures of office briefly is just a harmless aspect of his much-touted style naturel-the flair for informality that Giscard promised to bring to French politics...