"What they conversed about, I don't know," Gary Walters, chief White House usher, said.
The brooding president, pained by the grinding death march of the Civil War, might be a Hamlet coming upon gravediggers; instead he converses about Shakespeare with the renowned actor Edwin Booth.
He's conversed about history and soap operas, about the Internet and the government, and he can't do it for another minute.
There's nothing to converse about; an emailed heads up would be better.
There is much to converse about and consider in the shared origins of the Abrahamic traditions.
Not perfectly, I'll grant you, but with the ability to converse about ecclesial identity without compromising the national denomination or the local congregation.
He did not appear to hear when one worker shouted, "How you doing, Mr. Bloomberg?" Mr. Bloomberg appeared better at ease during the next visit, at the Riverdale Senior Center, where he conversed breezily about the merits of bridge versus hearts; his mother, Charlotte, who is 94; and whether the good old days were ever that good.
Neither had anything in mind, so they conversed about the upcoming baseball season about which neither cared.
He had read a handful of papers from each of the people he hoped to meet with, so he could converse about their work in more depth.
When we conversed about President Obama's task force and the efforts of the White House, he responded, "I think he's making progress".
