Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making a case for it. Menshikov paid beaming calls upon Eisenhower (twice), Nixon (once), and Dulles (twice). He skirted precedent by calling upon members of the President's personal staff, first off Sherman Adams, explaining with a big smile that "I'm not very strict on protocol...
...White House limousine stopped at the Russian embassy on 16th Street one morning last week and picked up a burly passenger bundled up in a double-breasted blue overcoat. Escorted by two motorcycle cops, the car sped to the White House, where the State Department's Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan Jr. escorted the visitor into the oval, green-walled office of the President of the United States...
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...
...part of its participation in Argentina's Twelfth Annual Aviation Week at Buenos Aires, the U.S. offered faster-than-sound joy rides in an F-102 fighter. For protocol's sake, the first invitation went from the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Paul S. Emrick, to President Pedro Aramburu. Last week, to Emrick's surprise, Aramburu stepped out of a helicopter at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport ready for his ride...
What Jasper Haynes had not dreamed was that the presentation, arranged months ago, would fall in a week when gifts in government had Washington newsmen in a happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...