After saying repeatedly since his election to national office in 2004 that he was not considering the presidency, he said in a network TV interview that well, actually, yes, he was pondering reaching for the biggest prize.
After telling Sherrod he regretted her forced resignation over racial remarks she made to an NAACP audience, Obama said in a nationally broadcast network interview he believes Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack "jumped the gun" in sacking the veteran Georgian federal worker.
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The president stayed out of the public eye, leaving it to Secretary of State John F. Kerry to argue in a round of network interviews that the administration's case was "growing stronger by the day".
One year after revealing himself as the source of the biggest intelligence leak in US history, Edward Snowden appeared in a long network television interview on Wednesday to describe himself as an American patriot and to make the case that his disclosures were motivated by a desire to help the country.
In the first study respondents could choose between filling out ego-centered data through a web questionnaire and being probed about their network in a personalized interview.
"They are still living in a traditional mindset and values, even though there's no way that those can solve their problem," said Feng Yuan, a feminist and head of Beijing's Anti-Domestic Violence Network, in a telephone interview.
The commander, Bobby Hodges, said in a telephone interview that network producers had never showed him the documents but had only read them to him over the phone days before they were featured Wednesday in a "60 Minutes" broadcast.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon slammed libertarian megadonor Charles Koch and leaders of his political network in a scathing interview with Politico, telling the billionaire to "shut up and get with the program".
Interviews were sought with individuals who played a role in or who were knowledgeable about C-IMCI in Burkina Faso and comprised two components: an in-depth interview and a network survey.
