Word: libber
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...verbal facility (he was the quickest ad-libber in the business) and openness to edgy comedians like Sahl and Bruce, Allen was no radical. He was the ideal host: a mediator, a moderator. When he wasn't talking, he actually listened to his guests. When he wasn't being funny, he could be resolutely serious; "The Tonight Show" occasionally devoted entire evenings to one guest (Carl Sandburg) or discussion of one topic (civil rights). Unlike most modern hosts, Allen wasn't shy about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger...
...talks at Camp David and a 15-hour flight to Japan (with a 13-hour time change) Clinton and his aides were bushed. Yet while the President often looked puffy-eyed, he never nodded off in public. But veteran Clinton-watchers noted that when the President, a compulsive ad-libber, gave his major speech at Okinawa's Peace Park, he stuck strictly to his prepared text, a sure sign of exhaustion...