Traveling with President Bush in Australia, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said the memorandum was "exactly what a strong and capable secretary of defense, like Secretary Rumsfeld, should be doing".
Describing the spot as a "nonunion commercial," the memorandum asked for "everyday people on the street" with a "strong emphasis on Hispanic and Caucasian".
"Our just completed 'testing the waters' poll shows that Mark Green is in a strong position to win the 2001 Democratic primary for mayor of New York City," the memorandum said.
In an internal memorandum, she said that at ITV News Ms. Turness "has earned a reputation for being a strong leader, innovator and respected journalist, and I look forward to her joining NBC News".
But after a strong public reaction to a report in The New York Times on the note, G.M. issued a statement on Thursday that said the memorandum had been "poorly worded".
Nevertheless, a 1940 memorandum, based on a conversation with Goodall, noted that "a comparison of a photograph of Mr Goodall, taken in 1902 with the statue itself certainly indicates a strong facial likeness".
The verbal note, according to the Filipino news site Rappler, was "an unsigned communication considered less formal than a note but stronger than a memorandum".
By contrast, the rent-control case memorandum was one of several dozen in which Ms. Kagan appeared to take a stronger personal interest — writing in more emotional terms or at significantly greater length.
On Dec. 28, 2001, after officials settled on Guantánamo Bay, Mr. Philbin and Mr. Yoo told the Pentagon in a memorandum that it could make a "very strong" claim that prisoners there would be outside the purview of American courts.
A memorandum from a supervisor, Capt.
