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...experienced this too, right? During George W. Bush's Administration, you were caught off-record calling him the worst President in the nation's history. After that comment was published, it went around the world about 50 times. The White House press secretary called me wanting to know if I really had said that. And I had to admit that I had, to a reporter while I was signing my book, though I didn't know it was a reporter. But I didn't apologize because it's what I felt at the time. Anyway, it's a free press...
...there one Administration that sticks out as being more secretive than any other? All of them are secretive. All of them. But I think we got a lot more out of President Kennedy and especially President [Lyndon] Johnson. He would summon us - the entire press corps - to the South Lawn and we'd stroll around the grounds with him. We'd call them the Bataan Death Marches because the women wore really high heels with pointed toes, and we would be falling all over each other. But we'd take these walks, and he would really let his hair down...
...known for saying "Thank you, Mr. President" at the end of each White House press conference. How did that tradition begin? The tradition had been built up from Franklin D. Roosevelt, who always let the senior wire-service reporter in the room conclude each news conference. At one time, my boss at UPI had that honor, and he always said "Thank you." Then that privilege went to an AP reporter, who always said "Thank you." Then suddenly...
...from the start, Israel refused to cooperate with the inquiry, accusing the panel, and Goldstone in particular, of bias. In the right-wing Israeli press, he was portrayed as a prejudiced South African liberal, misguidedly equating the Palestinians with his own country's black population during the fight against apartheid...
...Whatever happens to the Goldstone report, Israeli officials are under a growing shadow of possible prosecution by advocacy groups using the courts in a number of Western countries to press for legal action over the Gaza war - so much so that some senior Israeli figures have reportedly had to factor the prospect of facing arrest into their travel plans. Some reports suggest that nearly 1,000 such lawsuits are pending, making it dangerous for prominent Israelis to travel abroad. Two weeks ago, Barak narrowly avoided arrest on a trip to the U.K. after a court ruled that he was protected...