Word: mudd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some reporters missed the excitement of the old mike-to-mike combat with Richard Nixon, or the crisp pace of Jimmy Carter's minilectures. But most agreed with NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd, who expressed relief that reporters would no longer spring "from the half crouch exploding into a full gainer with shout" to get the President's attention. At week's end Brady announced two other changes: Reagan will hold occasional informal sessions with journalists beginning this week, and, as an experiment, questioners at his next formal press conference will be chosen by lottery...
Construction had started on Yale University's new Seeley G. Mudd Library. But inflation was exceeding expectations, and Yale needed to find another $1.5 million as the projected construction cost grew to $6.7 million. Meanwhile, resting virtually unseen in a library vault was the Yale coin collection's most famous gold piece, a 26-gram doubloon struck in 1787 by New York Goldsmith Ephraim Brasher...
little virtuous blackmail. Everything considered, a library may be a safer investment, even if its name is Mudd...
...that the speech acknowledged. It was a time for poetry in the affairs of the country, a moment to show spirit and feeling and to soar, rather than to list and explain and justify. Perhaps Kennedy knew that this was the declaration of purpose he never spoke for Roger Mudd last November when the CBS interviewer asked him why he wanted to be President, and also perhaps a belated acknowledgment that the nation and the world are changing and he must change with them...
...Mudd should help in more substantive ways. He has a wry sense of humor, and some of his better pieces have poked gentle fun at the foibles and failings of American politics and its practitioners. His interview with Senator Edward Kennedy last fall caught the candidate at his inarticulate worst and is possibly the most important work of political journalism of the entire campaign. On-camera, Mudd is soothing if somewhat stolid. For viewers who like someone more neutral than the electrifying Rather, Roger Mudd may some day be the man of the evening half-hour...