Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ogden is familiar with covering fast-paced stories. After Yale ('66) and three years with the Army in Asia, he was a Moscow correspondent in the early 1970s for United Press International, and later for TIME. Before taking over the White House assignment last February, he had been TIME'S State Department correspondent, a beat that involved travel to four continents with Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance. But last week's events constituted, he said, "the most fascinating few days I've spent as a journalist...
...week wore on, Carter acted as if a great weight had been lifted off him. Looking out of a White House window on Thursday evening, he spotted some people pressed up against the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his shirtsleeves the President went out to see them. As the crowd broke into a verse of one of his favorite hymns, Amazing Grace, Carter climbed the fence to greet them. Friday afternoon, at a two-minute press conference, an unsmiling Carter defended his Cabinet changes as being "all constructive" and said that there would be no further firings. He added...
...change eliminated the last vestiges of Carter's experiment with "Cabinet government" and a staff that he used to compare to the "spokes of the wheel," with himself at the hub. His original intention had been to give associates easy access to the Oval Office. Soon after the election, Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that Carter thought "it was not in his interest to have a single chief of staff," a title that had special political significance because the memory of Nixon Aide H.R. Haldeman was so fresh in the public mind. But the loose arrangement, almost inevitably, caused confusion...
...months as chairman of the Fed, Bill Miller, 54, has been something of a maverick. He speaks freely to the press, signs most of his business letters Bill, and takes off his jacket on occasion at congressional hearings. A businessman and lawyer rather than an economist by training, he has been remarkably accurate in his economic forecasting. Known from the beginning as a determined inflation fighter, he has taken the position that the Fed should be dedicated to a long-term plan for reducing the inflation rate over the next five to seven years and should not react nervously...
...high-volume pedestrian area, and a nice show-place," Brewer said, adding that being next door to the University Press should help sales at both stores...