At his pre-holiday press conference, White House correspondents provided a grim recap of the past year: Edward Snowden and the N.S.A. leaks, the fumbling of healthcare.gov, falling approval ratings, a legislative agenda that could be described in the same terms that John Cleese, of "Monty Python," once applied to a parrot.
Usually when you go on one of these free holidays press trips, you just get flown out there, go to whatever it is you're meant to be writing about, then are left alone to have fun with the rest of your time.
Usually when you go on one of these free holidays press trips, you just get flown out there, go to whatever it is you're supposed to be writing about, and then are left alone to have fun with the rest of your time.
She is the author of "If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday" (Free Press, 2001) and an author of "Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008).
Still, crafting a holiday momentum press release without including any actual metrics is an impressive, year over year performance in and of itself.
During the Mediterranean holiday when the press were circling Fayed's yacht Rees-Jones called Fayed in London to ask for back-up.
With most of official Washington already gone for the Fourth of July holiday, the White House press secretary, Dana Perino, issued a simple statement outlining Mr. Bush's August travel schedule, including the notation that he would go to the opening ceremonies.
She also said that when she refused to work on Yom Kippur, Mr. Jennings shouted at her and said, "I don't care if it's a Jew holiday!" Mr. Miller's press secretary, David K. Chai, said yesterday that while the lawyer had spoken to Mr. Miller in the spring about being removed from Mr. Jennings's committee, she had not conveyed her specific objections to him.
Why else would I have lived there and still visit on holiday?" In the press, he was lampooned to an extent that would never have been dished out to, say, Walter Smith in the event that he struggled as the manager of Scotland.
