Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, Thornburgh has never shown such affection for the press. Since taking the helm, more than half of the Department's spokespersons have been laid off. Besides Spokesperson David Runkel, most officials are forbidden to speak to the press. (Internal memoranda sent to bureaucrats warning that leaks will not be tolerated were eventually leaked, however...
...such tasks as stapling can't be fun and rewarding? Certainly no one on Capitol Hill. Interns, after all, don't staple just anything. These aren't just any papers, these are memoranda...
...Neustadt's call for a new era of press management by policymakers. Linsky and Neustadt, in defending the concept of improved press management, offered curious suggestions to policymakers: 1) "frame the issues" for the journalist, 2) use the press merely to communicate with other departments (i.e. inter-office memoranda), and 3) consider the press a strategic instrument to implement policies. The spirit of these suggestions struck chords of discontent with Hunt. In fact, they clashed with several values which Hunt later defended: the autonomy of the press, the adversarial (not cooperative) relationship between journalists and policymakers, and the "willingness...
...Middle East. On May 21, I sent the President a detailed plan of action and asked for an NSC meeting to discuss the plan before we left for a tour of Europe and the summit of industrialized democracies in Versailles eleven days later. But my efforts came to nothing-memoranda, telephone calls, confrontations with Bill Clark all failed to drive the message through the incoherent NSC system...
...opening of Presidential libraries with excitement, because each one--even Gerald Ford's--organizes and unveils important documents and mementos previously kept from view. But the hype surrounding the Ronald Wilson Reagan's collection promises to be unprecedented. For although such museums typically include a President's private memoranda, it's hard to believe Reagan owns enough such documents to back the many assertions he has made with seeming disregard for fact...