Word: hume
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Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers plunked herself down in David Gergen's basement office in the West Wing last Monday night and laid out her problem. Just hours before, Clinton had named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, but then abruptly ended a press conference when Brit Hume of ABC News nettled the President with a question about his tortured selection process. Myers told Gergen that she expected the morning to bring good economic news, and was looking for a way to capitalize on that story and make the Rose Garden incident history. Gergen, who served as communications director...
Clinton was cool to Gergen's idea at first but relented after some prodding. He appeared before reporters the next day at noon, and made a cathartic joke at his own expense. "You know what I'm upset about?" he asked the newly married Hume. "You got a honeymoon, and I didn't." As reporters chuckled, Gergen whispered to Myers, "That was perfect." Clinton left the briefing room feeling triumphant. "That was fun," he said to Myers. "We ought to do < more of it, you know...
...Hume, a renowned journalist, is currently a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. me she'd tried to kill President Ford because she wanted to prove herself a real radical instead of being an FBI phony spying on the Bay Area's radical movement. Flying to Cambodia in the back of a cargo plane on Thanksgiving Day, 1979, I saw the Khmer Rouge's just-vacated torture chambers, the pits of bones, the killing fields. At the Three Mile Island nuclear accident I thought we all were going...
...tricky part about having your dreams come true is making them mean what they were supposed to mean when you dreamed them in the first place.Crimson File PhotoELLEN H. HUME...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...