Word: spokesman
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...traveled Pope in history, but apparently he likes to kick back in the Vatican with the remote every now and then. During a live panel discussion on Italian television celebrating his 20th papal year, the Pope unexpectedly called in to the program, catching everyone by surprise, including his own spokesman, who was among the guests on the show. "I would like to thank all those taking part for everything that they have said and done," the Pope told the show's shocked host, Bruno Vespa. Visibly moved and more than a little flummoxed, Vespa took a moment to collect himself...
...strategy to get jurisdiction over the Lewinsky angle. And it also would have lengthened the period in which Starr was looking into the Jones case without first receiving permission from Reno, a serious problem given the Independent Counsel Act's tough rules against free-lance investigating. Starr's spokesman Charles Bakaly denies that the office began probing before Tripp called. But last week David Kendall, the President's private attorney, sent a letter to Reno asking her to look into the charges. Kendall also went further. Transcripts of the Tripp tapes show that Tripp urged Lewinsky not to sign...
...worse before it gets better. The very man who put Democrats in this tight spot -- President Clinton -- was speed-dialing the Hill late Tuesday looking for support. New press spokesman Joe Lockhart denied the White House was issuing "instructions," but plenty of loyal party members look on a Clinton call as the kiss of death. Luckily for them, the First Lady is working the phones, too. Could Hillary help prevent an embarrassingly large GOP victory -- and bail her husband out of trouble one more time...
...love affair with Mike McCurry is purely cerebral and totally unrequited; I'm a photo editor working in the bowels of the Time & Life building, and the official White House spokesman doesn't even know I exist. Yet I feel him speaking to me each time he faces the press in that briefing room. He is witty and articulate in a way I've often longed to be, thinking on his feet, wearing many hats, yet never sacrificing his integrity and his own sense of right and wrong...
...brash backbencher on the House Judiciary Committee in the early 1970s, Michigan Representative John Conyers was enough of an irritant to the Nixon White House to earn 13th place on the Administration's original enemies list. "Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman," presidential counsel John Dean noted next to Conyers' name. In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee...