Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Senator Reed of Missouri deliver satiric observations on the misty emanations of the official White House Spokesman (i.e., President Coolidge...
When excitement at Washington was at its apogee, last week, over the Nicaraguan situation (See p. 8) a sarcastic hope was voiced by Senator Reed (see above) that the President would not express himself concerning Nicaragua and Mexico exclusively through "The Spokesman of the White House," but would tell Congress unequivocally what was in his mind. After letting the Senators fulminate for a few days longer President Coolidge granted their wish. He caused to be read to the House and Senate a message which repeated over his signature almost exactly what he had told the press for weeks...
...ladies and gentlemen, Vermont has as good mountains as any other state. So when the President of this country, Calvin Coolidge, cannot find a mountain in Vermont good enough to bear his name, I scruple at his right to continue as manager of the only silent spokesman, official or otherwise, ever heretofore allowed to parade the White House Grounds...
...Calvin Coolidge has shot his bolt. He's dead. His official spokesman is a spiritualist. And then take the matter of these people down in Nicaragua. I have never been acquainted with many of them, although one never knows whom he's going to meet in Cambridge. Yet I have a friend who is engaged to one and he says he really likes her. In fact he prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while...
...other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...