Copies of his speech, which did not touch on interest rate policy or the state of the economy, were distributed in Washington.
None of these were made-up anxieties, all of them touched on clear national interests, and we had the examples of three major Arab-Israeli wars in a quarter century, the oil embargo and oil shocks of the 1970s and the Iranian Revolution of the 1979 as illustrations of precisely the kind of outcomes that we wanted to avoid.
Most of his exclusive paragraphs reported more pleasant things like coming engagements and some of them touched on matters of genuine public interest - as distinct from what was of interest to the public - such as the exclusive revelation in 1976 that the Labour leader Harold Wilson was thinking of resigning as prime minister (denied at the time but soon to be vindicated).
Previous studies have touched on this topic.
However, if you talk about food safety, you will touch on the interest of food manufacturers and that's not safe for you," he says.
Members of Congress must recuse themselves from government dealings touching on their own financial interests, according to strict regulations in the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, enacted after Watergate.
His other published works reflect the wide range of his research interests, touching on democracy and new media, the "wow factor" of popular culture, science-fiction fan communities and the early history of film comedy.
"She touched on the interests of the governor and the mayor," Amanda Rivero, one of her Mexican lawyers, said.
So far the sanctions against his cronies have not touched on the interests of most Russians, while the Kremlin's ban on food imports has not materially affected Mr Putin's core voters.
Several, like Jeffrey D. McCausland, a CBS military analyst and defense industry lobbyist, said they kept their networks informed of their outside work and recused themselves from coverage that touched on business interests.
And Bergner is touching on the difficulty of sustaining interest in a partner over the course of a long marriage.
