Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few days earlier, Kirkpatrick's boss had given Moscow a good example of what she meant. Addressing a White House lunch for Polish-American leaders, the President said that the U.S. could not passively accept the "permanent subjugation of the people of Eastern Europe." Reagan cited the...
How a floor reporter works a cut-and-dried convention
NBC's Chris Wallace was getting edgy. He was supposed to interview Ron Reagan, the President's son, on the Republican Convention floor under the signpost of the New York delegation. But his interviewee, it turned out, was many yards away, under the standard of New York'...
For Wallace, the missed interview made three nights in a row of minor irritations. On the convention's first evening, he looked for moderates who dissented from the platform, but three people on his list were away from their seats, and a fourth declined to be openly critical, so...
For most of the 13,000 journalists at the convention, the main topic of conversation was how hard it was to find a story. Said Walter Cronkite: "Up to now, the dullest one I ever covered was the 1956 convention that renominated Eisenhower. But this here may well win." There...