Word: marshaling
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...leaks, there are some secrets you can keep from the President. Last Thursday, when most of the city was focused on the possibility that Chief Justice William Rehnquist was about to resign from the Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers got a call from Pamela Talkin, head marshal at the Supreme Court, who told her that a sealed letter from the court would be delivered to the White House the next morning. Talkin did not say what would be in it. But Miers, like everyone else, knew that the resignation of a Justice was probably imminent. She relayed Talkin...
...next morning Miers called the marshal's office at the Supreme Court and was told Talkin was now authorized to reveal that the letter would concern Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Miers eventually reached the President with the news. Not long after, with a White House photographer on hand to record the moment, George W. Bush placed a call to O'Connor. "I wish I was there to hug you," he told her. "For an old ranching girl, you turned out pretty good...
...Well, of course I'm a feminist. But I knew that if I said yes, I'd lose the job. So I said no." Other first-time directors, like Actress-Director Lee Grant (Tell Me a Riddle), were cowed with tough-guy analogies: a director must be a field marshal, a quarterback, a boardroom Svengali. "This producer asked me, 'But can you be the captain of a ship?' I was taken aback at the Captain Ahab image of dealing with sailors in a muscular world. Everyone can be a different kind of captain on a different kind of ship...
...performing his job, he says he draws experience from his time as a senior class marshal and as Mather House Committee chair...
...Lithgow returns nearly every year as the festival’s Grand Marshal and concurrently works with the Office for the Arts (OFA) to host discussions and visits by other renowned artists...