Word: frankness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf, with reporting by Mitch Frank...
...Reported by Mark Coatney and Frank Pellegrini/Philadelphia, Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville and Eric Roston/New York
...Inside, Buchanan's henchmen - committee chairman Gerald Moan and head credentialer Frank Reed - are doing just that. And it looks like a city council meeting: old white men, mostly, trying to understand parliamentary procedure, trying to figure out which delegates are still showing up, trying to get to a point when they can actually vote. Everybody's referring to Roger's Rules, but nobody seems to have a copy. But it must be the real convention, because it's on C-SPAN...
...with Powell truly unavailable and the freewheeling John McCain unimaginable, the process moved in May to a second tier of contenders. The list of roughly a dozen names ranged from Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating to Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson to twice-failed presidential candidate Lamar Alexander. Each contender was given a questionnaire containing more than 80 requests for information, including 10 too sensitive to be answered on paper. To answer those, candidates were told to wait for face-to-face interviews...
...list of specials (is that what they're called at Le Bec-Fin?) I've ever heard. Another 15 minutes later, the descriptions finally ended, and we got down to the serious business at hand: Deciding whether the man sitting directly across from us was, in fact, Oklahoma governor Frank Keating - or merely a clever imposter...