Word: fleischered
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...White House and threatening to kill himself, had been shot by Secret Service agents. The alleged gunman, later identified as Robert Pickett of Evansville, Ind., was in surgery early Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University Hospital. At an afternoon press conference, held after the arrest, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer emphasized that the President had never been in danger. However, as Dickerson reports, four hours after the event D.C. was still swarming with cops...
...Dickerson: Ari [Fleischer] didn't seem to know if the tax families were still around. Some of them might have been, but they'd finished their official visit. The weird thing is that we were all out on the South Lawn this morning for the presentation, and this guy was captured on the southernmost point of the lawn, where people line up to look at the White House - you can get the best view of the building from there. It makes you wonder, though: Could someone with a handgun get a clear shot from that angle...
...Fleischer? He is George W. Bush's chief spokesman, and therefore the link between the president and the public, but America doesn't know him. His resum seems pretty impressive, but that doesn't change the fact that we haven't listened to him, learned from him or made fun of him for the last eight years as we have Clinton's team. Yet every day Fleischer tells us what the president is doing and answers questions on his behalf. Given that he has held this job for the last two and a half weeks, this does not seem surprising...
...Fleischer Press Secretary Gets big office held by predecessors. Perks: Four TVs and two doors, one for avoiding the press...
...White House press secretary Ari Fleischer was happy to add a few bangs to the tax-cut drum. "We are seeing a government that is awash in surplus money, even with an economy that is softening from where it used...