Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago," says Correspondent Beckwith, "Admiral Poindexter and his wife Linda were readily accessible. As Poindexter began talking to the Senate committee and special counsel investigators, however, his lawyer ordered both of them to stop talking to reporters." When Beckwith sat next to his former source at a dinner this spring, Poindexter chatted happily about his computer hobbies and his family but said hardly anything about a certain arms deal with a certain country in the Middle East...
...something. But Reagan was not to be hurried. First came Nancy's birthday. The President presented her at breakfast with an assortment of greeting cards. Nancy whisked off across the Potomac to lunch with her staff at the luxurious Windows restaurant, then came back for a very private dinner with her husband. Oddly, no reporter asked Press Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater what birthday Mrs. Reagan was celebrating. She was, in fact, an elegant and lively 64, er, give or take a year. But birthdays and almost everything else had been pushed aside in the media, all waiting for the big clash...
There are trends, all too easily discernible, in dinner conversations. The saga of domestic help is a persistent one -- pretty worked over by now. Real estate is an ongoing turnoff, but the new buzz is even more boring and more inescapable. It is traffic...
...position on issues is prepared by the Treasury Department, although Washington's chief delegate is William Milam, 50, an easygoing Deputy Assistant Secretary of , State for International and Finance Development. Discussions often run from 9 a.m. to well past midnight, with only half-hour breaks for lunch and dinner in the building's downstairs cafeteria...
From his years as a dinner speaker for General Electric, Reagan has been a master of the art of exhortation. Indeed, the day before he journeyed to the Tidal Basin to stand beneath the bronze statue of Jefferson, the President told his Cabinet, "The mashed-potato circuit is still out there, and I may be right back on it." So why not start now, while he still commands the world's airwaves and has his jet to get him around...