Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State has, with variations, assumed to itself. Since 1952, in fact, setting up and plucking down Presidents has been a cottage industry in New Hampshire, along with summer camps and maple syrup. By holding the nation's earliest primary, New Hampshire sought and got an outrageous amount of press attention, partly because there is not much other news in February, partly because presidential politicking is a peculiarly American disease...
Thus the presidential parade passes by, all but meaningless except to the can didates, the political groupies, the press. On the windblown streets, with snow stacked at the curbs and down the center strip, people all seem to be blimp-shaped, wrapped in navy or rust or blue quilted suits. In motels, freezing guests set thermostats at 90°-but the mercury never touches 60° all night...
...candidates, the press and all those other interlopers, Shakespeare has a line for them too: "Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone." -Hays Gorey
...called the press conference, he said, to charge that the U.S. Government was withholding a tape recording that would show that no one had coerced the members of the Peoples Temple colony in Guyana into killing themselves. On the contrary, contended Michael Prokes, 32, who had been one of Jim Jones's top aides, the tape would prove that "they chose to die because it was an act of courage and a commitment to their beliefs...
...initial response of the American press was to gloat over the spectacle of two "communist" countries at war, while the U.S. State Department was quick to strike an "even-handed" posture and hypocritically deplore "any use of force outside ones own territory." However, The New York Times of March 5, 1979 revealed that in fact the Carter administration had advance knowledge of the Chinese invasion: "Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher said last week that the United States learned from Mr. Teng during his visit of China's plans to attack Vietnam...