Certainly, the editorial cleared the way for a cordial visit and what one insider described as the most substantive recent conversations held between a pope and a US president.
His interview with The Paris Review, which was published in 1997 but "culled from over a dozen conversations held between 1993 and 1996 in Mr. Rosset's East Village loft," is a chronicle of interactions with, and opinions about, Miller, Beckett, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Malcolm X and just about every other notable literary figure of the 1950s and '60s.
"When the Yankees got into the Series, I was looking at my calender and I though, 'Oh, my God, I'm in trouble," Hamlisch said in a phone conversation held between Games Four and Five.
Earlier on Monday the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, which had organized a conference call between Varoufakis and investors, released a recording of the conversation held between the former minister and financial professionals on 16 July.
You're listening through time and, literally, space to conversations held nearly five decades ago, between three men floating 238,000 million miles from home.
And it is why it was fascinating to learn this week of recorded phone conversations held on Sept. 13 and 14, 1971, between Rockefeller and President Richard M. Nixon.
However, he points back and forth between Google and Facebook because "I won't have my conversations held hostage by any one company".
Many side conversations were held between members of every possible combination of party and chamber.
In the opening weekend of the Biennial a temporary dome was erected, under which conversations were held between locals and professionals about the future direction of the park.
When claims against Ball were made in 1993, conversations were held between police, prosecutors and the church before it was decided to caution the bishop rather than charge him.
