Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter himself had not provided the leadership the nation needs (see cover story). Now he was trying to change that The whole nature of the press conference was different. Not only had it been moved from the business-like Old Executive Office Building auditorium to the more ornate East Room, but it also was shifted from the customary mid-afternoon of a working day to the prime-time television hour of 9 p.m. E.D.T...
...Branch still shaken by a fortnight of rumors and uncertainties that followed the President's astonishing request for the resignation of all 34 Cabinet members and top aides. He started the week by requesting a meeting with his entire staff. Some 300 of them crowded into the East Room on Monday afternoon, and those who could not fit in watched over closed-circuit television. Despite the fact that Rosalynn and new Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan were publicly defending him, Carter conceded that he might have acted too abruptly. He also acknowledged that he should have invited more Republicans...
...honesty, when he walks into a room, it doesn't light...
Troy was also the master of the smoke-filled back room. Not only was he a New York City councilman, but he was Democratic leader of the huge borough of Queens (pop. 1.9 million). What toppled Troy was a matter of finances-the city...
...about making the Long Wharf one of the best and boldest regional theaters in the nation. Broadway dares not take many chances, but Brown does, and the result is a series of plays staged first in New Haven and then moving on to New York: The Changing Room, Streamers, The Shadow Box, The Gin Game and a revival of Ah, Wilderness! Brown, who has already branched out into television and is planning to go into movies, is not talking idly when he says: "We've become equally proficient with Broadway in overall quality." A year ago the Long Wharf...