Word: marlins
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That did not mean relations were on the smoothest possible track. A "tough- love working relationship" was the term White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater used to describe U.S.-Soviet dealings these days. Tough in more ways than one. During Shevardnadze's five sessions with Baker, some serious snags appeared in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Afterward, a senior Soviet official said it was "impractical" to assume that a pact limiting the most destructive portions of the superpower arsenal would be signed at the Bush-Gorbachev meeting. Nonetheless both U.S. and Soviet sides agreed that all the major issues...
Saddam's outburst set off alarms in Jerusalem. "Let there be no doubt," responded Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, "Israel will also know how to defend itself in the future and defeat the evil designs of its enemies." White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the Bush Administration found Saddam's remarks "deplorable and irresponsible." Fitzwater called for concrete steps "to rid the region of chemical and other conventional weapons and to move toward peace...
...face, the Rosty tax plan looks like something that would make George Bush's lips tremble and his teeth clench. But White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater refused all opportunities to deep-six it. "We don't want to pour too much cold water on a plan we may want to swim around in for a while," he said. The water was warm enough for Bush to pick up the phone and call his old friend -- the two served together on Ways and Means during the late 1960s -- and thank the chairman for his suggestion. He praised Rostenkowski for trying...
Washington seems prepared to accept the Sandinistas in the role of loyal opposition. "There is space in a democratic Nicaragua for the expression of all political points of view," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Robert Pastor, Jimmy Carter's chief Latin American adviser, suggests that Bush go further, for example by inviting Sandinista ministers to Washington along with the new government to work out the terms of U.S. aid. "The Sandinistas should be given as many incentives as possible for cooperation," he says...
Conveying that elusive reality in documentaries or news footage -- or in written dispatches, for that matter -- is often impossible. As press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said on Brokaw's special, the press sees only about 10% of what really goes on in the White House. Fitzwater's remark was the most candid line in the show. In view of television's continued reliance on pictures to tell the White House story, it was also the most cautionary...