Word: guests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another engagement last week, and the staging was as impressive as ever. Olive-drab Army buses wound down Pennsylvania Avenue, ferrying more than 100 members of Congress to the White House for a last- minute patriotic pitch from the Gipper. Chief Arms Control Negotiator Max Kampelman made a special guest appearance, jetting home from the Geneva arms talks to add diplomatic luster to Reagan's argument that a vote in the House against the MX would weaken America's bargaining position with the Soviets. Backstage, top Cabinet officials gave briefings to press Reagan's case to release $1.5 billion...
...never studied that." Come on. "I'm just talking about waste. So how about me giving you the strong defense you want? And leave it up to me what's 'strong,' at 20 cents less on the dollar by getting efficient. People would shout, 'Oh, shit, be my guest!' I would take the slop out of the military-industrial complex. And I happen to know it exists. I mean, it's cost-plus, and there's no competition. What the hell, there has to be slop...
There were fanfare and tributes aplenty in Washington last week as President Reagan paid homage to a distinguished South American guest, Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. There was also an exchange of sobering messages and differing perceptions. Above all, Alfonsin warned that the heartening tendency he represents, the return of democracy to Latin American nations, is too fragile to be taken for granted. As he put it, "Right next to hope, there is fear in Latin America, the fear that arises from the unsatisfied expectations of our peoples...
Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
Their personalities seem fixed, but like the politicians they cover, the five do change. Sam Donaldson once gave rude behavior its name; he is still stentorian, but on ABC's David Brinkley show, he questions guests intelligently. His colleague George Will has also changed but believes he has not. Will first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat...