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Baker walked into the pressroom on Monday afternoon, announcing, "I intend to do this often." That was welcome news to reporters, who had found Regan reclusive during his final months. Baker deftly handled sticky questions about remarks he made to a Miami Herald editor on a Miami-to-Washington flight two weeks ago. Baker, whose comments were printed in last Sunday's Herald, told the editor that the President's memory had a short "half-life." Explained Baker last week: "As majority leader, I found that the President was as good as anybody in the give-and-take on complex...
...trace of decency is Hildy Johnson (Richard Thomas), who wants to give the game up for a safe, lucrative job in advertising and marriage to a wholesome, dependable woman. To do so, however, he must abandon the newsman's one true romantic attachment: to the other boys in the pressroom. Seducing Hildy back is his editor Walter Burns (John Lithgow), a consummate user who plays to the reporter's vanity and yearning for power. The 6-ft. 4-in. Lithgow resembles a giant python, fixing victims with his stare, crushing them in his embrace. Johnson repeatedly flares into compassion...
...lost weight -- "His clothes are just hanging on him" -- and that "he is nervously and emotionally exhausted . . . It is sinking in that he is still a hostage." George Shultz put the best face on the arrangement that he could when he told skeptical reporters who packed the White House pressroom on Friday that the deal was only an "interim" step that changed nothing but the location of the two former prisoners. Said Shultz with considerable vehemence: "These two people, Zakharov and Daniloff, are in no way comparable. And we are not going to trade them off against each other...
...first wire service bulletins were transmitted reporting the collapse of the government of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. If the announcement caused a stir in newsrooms across the country, it probably did not compare with the reaction at the Department of State. Within moments, officials appeared in the pressroom to warn reporters that Washington had no confirmation of Duvalier's fall. The official disclaimer came at 1:45 p.m. at the daily State Department press briefing. "As of now," Spokesman Bernard Kalb said, "our information is that there has been no change of government." Kalb apologized for delaying...
...forced to report every quarter. He had made his second cover appearance in 1980 as a symbol of the auto industry's plight. Two and a half years later, when Iacocca had turned Chrysler around, he was on the cover again. "Iacocca was by then referring to the pressroom as 'the boom-boom room,' " Witteman remembers...