Word: folliard
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...York Timesman Tom Wicker, the Washington Post's Eddie Folliard, the New York Herald Tribune's Douglas Kiker-all of whom wrote guarded accounts of the meeting...
...This may sound crazy," said Washington Post Reporter Edward Folliard to Barry Goldwater at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, "but do you think it would be feasible for you, as the Republican nominee for President, to get together with the Democratic nominee and try to work out some agreement that would avert the inflaming of racial tension - some appeal for a peaceful America...
...afternoon that Johnson and Goldwater were finally scheduled to meet, the President held a press conference and threw it open to TV. As the Washington Post's Folliard entered the auditorium, one of the President's Secret Service men pulled him aside and requested that he ask Johnson very much the same question he had asked Goldwater at O'Hare...
...Folliard dutifully did so, and Johnson was waiting in his best pulpit manner. "Well," he said, "I do not believe that any issue which is before the people can be eliminated from the campaign in a free society in an election year ... I believe that all men and women are entitled to equal opportunities so that they may be judged according to their merits and not according to some artificial barriers. Now, to the extent that Senator Goldwater differs from these views, or the Republican Party differs, there will, of course, be discussion. And I intend to carry on some...
...reporters assigned to the tour−1,350 accredited by the U.S. alone−did not mind the extra work so much as the fact that, as the Washington Post and Times Herald's Edward T. Folliard put it, "this isn't a story, it's just a storybook." Everything happened according to schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant...