Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hall of Rabbits. By this time the Soviet press had thawed, and began running detailed accounts of the running debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. Both Pravda and Izvestia even carried photographs of Nixon. When Nixon got around to visiting Moscow's permanent U.S.S.R. Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, just about everybody in Moscow seemed to know who he was. Walking around the monumental 500-acre exhibition - which even includes a Hall of Rabbits-Nixon shook more than a hundred hands, smiled at and was smiled at by thousands of friendly Russians...
...President," said the Chicago Daily News's Reporter William McGaffin at Dwight Eisenhower's press conference last week, "is it correct that you yourself are the source of some stories which have appeared the last couple of days expressing your views on domestic and foreign affairs...
...find Page One splashed with stories detailing the President's thinking on the day's top issues-but attributing the news only to a "high authority." Word soon spread that the President had given a small stag dinner for regular White House correspondents-the first for the press that he had ever held at his house. Present were Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Press Secretary James Hagerty, and 13 newsmen-those, as Ike told the news conference, "who have covered me wherever I've gone, day in, day out ... on good trips, bad trips or anything else...
...tradition of Ike's black-tie stag dinners, with cocktails in the second-floor oval study. The party moved to the state dining room (main course: roast beef), then on to brandy and coffee in the book-lined, ground-floor library. Net reportorial result: an informal, wide-ranging press conference, with the President speaking his mind freely, unworried by direct quotations. Items...
...smoothies in every delegation who brief the gathered press at Geneva were finding it harder and harder to pretend that the allies all felt as one. The French were disgusted. The Americans were inclined to break off. The British used failure of the talks (as once they had hoped to use success of them) to argue for zooming right up to the summit. It looked as if the sad diplomatic phenomenon at Geneva might last at least two weeks more...