Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading Henry Kissinger's campaign to get back into the good graces of a skeptical and even hostile Congress made his reputation by skillfully handling an equally difficult group. From 1964 until 1973, Robert J. McCloskey, 52, had the unenviable task of serving as the spokesman for the State Department. Day after day, it was his job to meet the press and explain the U.S. position on Viet...
...McCloskey accomplished the task with such candor, clarity, diligence and wry humor that he became one of the truly rare Administration officials to emerge from the Viet Nam ordeal with his name not only intact but enhanced. When he left to become U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus in May 1973, McCloskey was given a dinner by the National Press Club. Peter Lisagor, the crusty Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, declared at the time: "It is just plain remarkable that a public affairs official could be so esteemed...
When the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war broke out, Kissinger recalled McCloskey to act as State's spokesman. Last week was McCloskey's first as Kissinger's ambassador to Capitol Hill, a job described by an aide to the Secretary as "one of the toughest in Washington right now." "He won't have much to tell us," says Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III. "But if he's tough and honest, he may have an opportunity to tell his boss a thing...
Junior Tom Fleming of Brookline, the first-line center, leads the squad with 23 goals and 22 assists, while classmate Ken Pettit, the second-line center, places second with 35 points. Two right wingers, sophomore Brian McCloskey and senior Charlie Solberg, follow with 28 and 26 points respectively...
...Michael McCloskey...