Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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occasion."
"We shall not be able perhaps to secure all that we desire," Tom Connally said. "We shall not be able to bring back perfection." But Senator Connally wanted to emphasize two facts: 1) San Francisco will be nonpartisan, so far as the U.S. delegation is concerned; 2) Dumbarton Oaks will...
The occasion was moving. The diplomats and the cabinet members were there; the galleries were jammed. Stoutly controlling a trace of nervousness as he read from a big, black notebook, Harry Truman first paid eloquent tribute to his predecessor, and added:
Franklin Roosevelt established the Presidential press conference as an institution. No other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned...
But Franklin Roosevelt, in nearly 1,000 press conferences, took the toughest, most loaded questions newsmen could throw at him. He knew how to dodge by calling the questions "iffy," picayune, or contentious. On occasion he sharply called correspondents liars, or told them to put on dunce caps. But he...