The State Department called in the diplomatic corps for briefing, while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton worked the phones to rally Russia, Mexico and other crucial countries to condemn Iran.
City officials said Deputy Commissioner Bradford Billet, the mayor's liaison to the diplomatic corps, had briefed the State Department on the city's plan during a meeting on June 13.
The press secretary then brought forward John Bridgeland, the director of U.S.A. Freedom Corps, who briefed the press on the commencement speech Mr. Bush was about to make at Ohio State on the culture of public service.
But after leaving Florida, on her way to Greenville, N.C., she for the first time in a month took questions from her traveling press corps, in a brief and impromptu news conference on her campaign plane.
WITH the announce-ment last week that the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, would leave his job sometime this summer, the unruly Washington press corps pondered a White House briefing room with a different face behind the lectern.
At the 6 a.m. briefing at corps district headquarters, Chris Accardo, chief of operations for the district, said that gauges at the canal show the water level has risen to levels as high as six-and-a half feet – at or beyond the margin of safety for the floodwalls.
United Nations country team briefs diplomatic corps on plans to deliver as one in South Africa 22 January 2008…Members of the diplomatic community gathered at a closed three-hour briefing session in Pretoria today, during which they heard presentations from leaders of the UN Country team on the world body's plans to deliver as one in South Africa.
To that end, both he and Mr. Martins do not offer critiques to apprentices and new corps members, other than brief mid- and end-of-year evaluations.
As McCarthy berated the comedians of the press corps from behind her briefing-room lectern, chomping an unholy wad of gum and jabbing her pointer finger in the air, her forehead seemed to seethe and bullishly bulge in rage.
After signing off, he then ambled up to his unamused press corps to give them a briefing of the meeting.
