Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gingrich's missteps of last week were not the first in his battle of wills with the White House. During a Nov. 1 visit to the Oval Office to discuss the budget with Clinton and Gore, the Speaker sniped that White House spokesman Mike McCurry had suggested that Gingrich and his troops wanted senior citizens to "die." Lurching forward in his seat, Gore reminded Gingrich of his 1994 allegation that Democratic Party values had played a role in Susan Smith's drowning of her two young sons. "Newt," Gore scolded, "I don't remember you apologizing to us for saying...
...make peace in the Middle East, we can get together in the U.S. on the budget." On the flight over, he invested another three hours talking with Dole about strategy. But at a meeting on the flight home from the funeral, the budget discussions never happened. As White House spokesman McCurry later explained, "The President of the United States lost a friend. And I don't think he much felt like talking about budget politics with Speaker Gingrich, with all due respect...
...came to Washington, "he said one of his goals was to talk to the American people to get them to understand how domestic and foreign policy are interrelated. I don't think there's been enough of that." The task is difficult. When Mike McCurry became the State Department spokesman, he declared that his highest priority was to make its work comprehensible to ordinary citizens. As he left for the White House two years later, he said his biggest regret was not having succeeded...
...House of Representatives, has thrown a fit. Gingrich and Dole are only hours away from their first serious sit-down with Bill Clinton to discuss the Republican budget. But Gingrich is threatening to scrap the long-awaited session. The morning's New York Times has quoted White House spokesman Mike McCurry describing the planned session as an "encouraging" concession on the part of the Republican leadership. "That's enough," Gingrich cries. "I'm not going down there [to the White House...
...garden on a fine Sunday afternoon. Every remembered epiphany evokes a dry giggle, except when he's waxing wrothful on Beatlemania ("They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then they blamed it on us"). Paul sounds earnest and superficial, like a Tory spokesman, and Ringo is still the ideal, unflappable pub mate. Even the grating last years, when Paul would rag George about his guitar playing, or sneak in to redub Ringo's drum parts, are events to look back on in sorrow, not anger. From the grave, Lennon has to give perspective...