Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently Menshikov smiled at his closed-door meeting with the President (nobody else was present except Protocol Chief Buchanan). Credentials-presenting ceremonies at the White House are usually routine, lasting five or ten minutes. But Menshikov's visit lasted 32 minutes. When press photographers asked Press Secretary James Hagerty about pictures, he said flatly: "No, we never have pictures of these calls." But a moment later his aide hove into view, calling, "Photographers!" The President himself had decided to break the rule...
Back in mid-January, replying to Premier Bulganin's invitation to the summit, the President declared: "It would be essential that prior to such a meeting . . . complex matters should be worked on in advance through diplomatic channels and by our foreign ministers." Last week, when a press-conference questioner asked Secretary of State Dulles whether "it is essential to hold a foreign ministers' meeting prior to a summit conference," Dulles replied: "No, it isn't essential...
...quick calls proved the story right, and Alcorn, with Ike's full endorsement, announced that the National Committee did not know beforehand of Porter's letter and would not accept the $100,000 collected at the dinner. Later, when newsmen asked White House Press Secretary James Hagerty for the President's reaction to Porter's blunder, he made a slashing gesture with the edge of his right hand against the arm of his red leather chair; Jack Porter's head figuratively rolled onto the floor. With it went the gas bill's chances...
...French press all but forgot the bombing in their outrage at Bourguiba's move. Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced that France had offered to negotiate withdrawal of her forces from Tunisia, but only if Bourguiba ceased his "pressure and provocation." Declared Pineau grandiloquently: "France intends to defend her interests, and the Tunisian government must understand their sacred character." To offset Bourguiba's U.N. appeal, Pineau lodged a countercomplaint with the Security Council, charging, accurately enough, that Tunisia had permitted Algerian rebels to operate from Tunisian soil. Said Pineau: "We are the accusers...
...Leader!" In Padang the rebel colonels were unintimidated by Djakarta's maneuvers, and as the week wore on they found some encouragement in reading news reports on Secretary of State Dulles' press conference in Washington.* To 10,000 cheering students. Colonel Ahmad Husein cried that he was submitting his military rank to the will of the people. Pulling off his epaulets, he flung them into the crowd. With equal sense of theater, the students shouted, "No. no, be our leader!", and several of them hurriedly fastened the insignia back on Husein's uniform with...