Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does the President feel about that? "He's pleased that things are working out for her," said press spokesman Mike McCurry. He'll be less pleased with the timing: Just when Clinton's lawyers were hammering out the details of how and when their boss would appear before the grand jury, along comes Monica. "That's good scare tactics," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Starr will want to put Monica on the stand first, to have as many specifics as possible to catch the President." The one specific that counts, of course, is whether she was told...
...night. Cockell may also have been within earshot of any phone calls between Lewinsky and Clinton at the White House. And Cockell was within earshot of the conversation between Clinton and lawyer Robert Bennett during their January limo ride back from the Paula Jones deposition. But Starr's spokesman, Charles Bakaly, rejected White House assertions that the independent counsel wants to intrude on a lawyer-client moment, using Cockell as the back door. Watching the Administration's doomed attempt to push its argument through the courts was like witnessing a man spending a week falling down a flight of stairs...
MARRIED. Seemingly newly acquainted twosome ROBERT EVANS, 68, the film producer, and CATHERINE OXENBERG, 36, the actress; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Said Evans' spokesman: "I didn't even know he knew...
...Williams, did such a good job of cleaning up Gibson's mess that Bond is free to devote himself to the organization's true mission: fighting for racial justice. He's the right man for the job: a charismatic civil rights hero since the 1960s, when he served as spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since then he has worked as a college history professor, as narrator of the civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize, and even as a poet...
...been the consummate professional," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, "and one of the most effective press secretaries that anybody's ever had." But the reasons the press liked Mike for the 22 years he served in Washington spokesman positions had changed over the last year. "His immense credibilty had always come from the fact that he always had all the information," Tumulty says. "But when the big Clinton scandals hit, he was shut out. His obvious frustration with that -- and his refusal to lie about it to us -- earned him both respect and a degree of sympathy...