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Article: Source material: "does this constitute a press conference?" Defining and tabulating modern presidential press conferences.
- Article from:
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Shortly before Thanksgiving, when President Bush was in the Rose Garden granting his annual pardon to a turkey, he remarked on the apparent anxiety of the turkey. "He looks a little nervous, doesn't he," the president said to the assembled group of youngsters, parents, and teachers (Remarks at the annual pardoning 2002). "He probably thinks he's going to have a press conference." President Eisenhower put the same sentiment a bit more starkly when he began a press conference with his observation of the process: "I will mount the usual weekly cross and let you drive the nails. (1) President Bush, like his predecessors, may not like press conferences, but presidents hold ...