Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times columnist Tom Wicker said that the press has not been aggressive enough in attacking Reagan's record because they are "intimidated" by his success...
...Congressional Office of Technology Assessment took an official look into the President's proposal and could barely restrain its bureaucratic laughter: "...the prospect for success of a space-based antimissile system is so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." Tom Wicker of the Times noted snidely that soon "people might get the idea the President doesn't know what he's talking about...
There was some welcome relief. Roger Mudd brought intelligence to the NBC triumvirate. And Brinkley managed to seem as sharp and wry at ABC as he once was at NBC. ABC also scored with George Will and Tom Wicker, if only because both seemed so visibly confused by Walters' words...
...usually answer with rehearsed minispeeches that may have little relation to what was asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "nothing . . . has spread more misinformation, more false claims and more just outright mischaracterizations of things than those debates have...
...other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour shows are frequently over before the surface has been more than scratched: too many celebrity experts to hear from. Still, The Constitution...