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Tim Moore (comedian)	Coates replied to his critic in his 29 January 1958 Los Angeles Times column, calling Moore'' a pretty wonderful, sincere man'' and saying he strongly resented Robertson's attack on him.
Jim Moran	On October 24, 2012 a video was released showing Patrick B. Moran, the Congressman's son and a field director with his father's campaign, discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots proposed to him by someone who posed as a fervent supporter of the campaign.
Ralph Nader	Asked on CNN Late Edition news program if he would run in 2008, Nader replied,'' It's really too early to say...'' Asked during a radio appearance to describe the former First Lady, Nader said,'' Flatters, panders, coasting, front-runner, looking for a coronation... She has no political fortitude.''
Bob Woodward	In his deposition, Woodward also said that he had conversations with Scooter Libby after the June 2003 conversation with his confidential administration source, and testified that it is possible that he might have asked Libby further questions about Joe Wilson's wife before her employment at the CIA and her identity were publicly known.
Huey Long	id wHJLAAAAYAAJ Every Man a King, with a second book entitled My First Days in the White House, laying out his plans for the presidency after the election of 1936.
Cindy McCain	In February 2008, McCain made news by being critical of Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who had said,'' And let me tell you something : For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country.''
Jeremy Thorpe	In 2002 a tape-recording surfaced of Harold Wilson discussing the scandal and saying :'' Look, I saw Jack Straw, he's very worried if he were mentioned in this context, he thinks he'll be finished.''
Vicente Fox	: See article Fox administration 225px | thumb | right | Fox with Laura Bush, -LSB- -LSB- Marta Sahagún, and George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, March 5, 2004 -RSB- -RSB- During his campaign for president, Vicente Fox became well known for his unique cowboy style and popular charisma.
Tom DeLay	The first judge to speak after DeLay finished'' Wild Thing,'' the'' effervescently effeminate'' (DeLay, who gave Tonioli a big wink and finger-point during the dance, later said,'' I think that's a great compliment,'' of Tonioli's comparison of him to former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate.)
Paul Weyrich	In a 2006 interview with Michele Norris of National Public Radio about the 2006 Mark Foley scandal, Weyrich expressed his views regarding homosexuality : Weyrich : It has been known for many years that Congressman Foley was a homosexual.
Mancow Muller	On December 6, 2005, Muller made an appearance on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends where he referred to Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean as'' vile'','' bloodthirsty'' and'' evil''.
David Addington	A PBS Frontline documentary'' Cheney's Law'' broadcast on October 16, 2007 detailed Addington's key role in Bush administration policy making, and noted that he declined to be interviewed regarding his thoughts on the limits of executive privilege.
Steve Jobs	In a 2011 interview with biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs revealed at one point he met with U. S. President Barack Obama, complained of the nation's shortage of software engineers, and told Obama that he was'' headed for a one-term presidency.''
Don Young	After a storm of negative reaction, Huckabee explained on the Huck PAC blog that the endorsement was due in part to Young's endorsement and steadfast support of Huckabee during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries.
Alexander Haig	In this regard, in his 1999 book Shadow, author Bob Woodward describes Haig's role as the point man between Nixon and Ford during the final days of Nixon's presidency.
Vernon A. Walters	Walters himself reflected on those challenging days in his 1978 autobiography, Silent Missions : I told -LSB- President Nixon's White House counsel -RSB- that on the day I went to work at the CIA I had hung on the wall of my office a color photograph showing the view through the window of my home in Florida... When people asked me what it was, I told them -LSB- this -RSB- was what was waiting -LSB- for me -RSB- if anyone squeezed me too hard.
Joe Waggonner	He was also a confidant of Republican U. S. President Richard M. Nixon, and in 1974 hosted Nixon's first public appearance after his resignation amid the Watergate scandal.
Donald Trump	With media coverage and Trump's repeated calls for release of the birth certificate, Obama eventually made a formal statement in efforts by the White House to put the matter to rest with the release of the long-form of Obama's birth certificate on April 27, 2011.
Donald Trump	On Anderson Cooper 360 ° on CNN, April 25, 2011, Trump said he wanted Obama to end the issue by releasing the long-form of his birth certificate.
A. Bartlett Giamatti	In 1978, when he was first rumored to be a candidate for the presidency of Yale, he had deflected questions by observing that'' The only thing I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.''
Rick Lazio	A decisive moment that was detrimental to his campaign came during a September 13, 2000 debate when he left his podium, walked over to Clinton with a piece of paper that he called the'' New York Freedom From Soft Money Pledge'' and demanded she sign it.
Paul Simon (politician)	Just four days before, despite being hospitalized and awaiting surgery, he had endorsed Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid via a telephone conference call he conducted from his hospital bed.
Ann Claire Williams	In an article in the Chicago Tribune on December 11, 1999, Williams declined to say whether she is a Republican or a Democrat, instead calling herself politically independent :'' I've written on thousands of cases across the board, and I think it would be hard to type me,'' she said.''
Paul Fericano	In response to former California governor Ronald Reagan's election to the Presidency in 1980 and the growing conservative movement, Fericano co-founded (with Elio Ligi) the first parody news and disinformation syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service (YU), which the Los Angeles Times dubbed,'' unbelievable news for unbelievable times.''
Gennifer Flowers	In his presidential deposition in January 1998, while denying Kathleen Willey's sexual accusations against him, Bill Clinton admitted that he had a sexual encounter with Flowers.
Franklin Graham	Graham responded to Obama's May 9, 2012, statement of support for same-sex marriage, saying,'' President Obama has, in my view, shaken his fist at the same God who created and defined marriage.
Joshua Workman	Workman was campaign manager for Conservative Susan Truppe's campaign and was quoted by Sun Media in summarizing the campaign,'' We had a good campaign, a lot of positive responses at the door,'' he said, Truppe, who works as a manager at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel on Wellington Road south, knocked on 10,000 doors, he added.''
Seth Petruzelli	On October 10, 2008, two days after the fight with Slice, he told the radio show The Monsters In The Morning : EliteXC Vice President Jared Shaw immediately denied what could be perceived as them trying to fix the fight, and Petruzelli later clarified his statement telling respectively Yahoo !
Douglas Kiker	He was the commentator on the August 9, 1974 live broadcast of President Richard Nixon's departure from office in disgrace from the Watergate scandal.
Michael Bloomberg	Adding more fuel to the speculation that Bloomberg might consider a VP slot were a series of meetings he had in mid-August 2007 with former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn and later with Barack Obama on November 30, 2007.
Dick Morris	Since leaving Clinton's employ in 1996, Morris has said he has become profoundly'' disillusioned'' with the actions of the Clintons in the late 1990s.
Cindy Sheehan	According to ABC News :'' Sheehan invoked Senator Ted Kennedy's passing as part of her message, noting that he was firmly antiwar and how he said his proudest vote as a senator was his 2002 vote against the Iraq war.''
Ron Reagan	In a June 23, 2004, interview on Larry King Live, while discussing reasons why he would not run for political office, Ron Reagan stated'' I'm an atheist... I ca n't be elected to anything because polls all say that people wo n't elect an atheist.''
Chuck Hagel	Criticism of the nomination According to Jon Swaine writing in the Telegraph, Hagel has been accused of having'' views -LSB- that -RSB- verged on anti-Semitic'' due to his stating in a 2006 interview with Aaron David Miller that'' -LSB- t -RSB- he Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people -LSB- on Capitol Hill -RSB-'', and'' I'm not an Israeli senator.
Jim Ryun	After Rep. Mark Foley resigned in October 2006, following revelations he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to teenage congressional pages, Ryun contended that he barely knew Foley, had never spent time with him, and was unaware that they lived directly across the street from each other in Washington, D. C.'' I know that -LSB- we were neighbors -RSB- only because somebody has mentioned that, too, already,'' he told reporters at the time.
Ginny Brown-Waite	February 15, 2007 :'' Git-R-Done'' During a February 15 floor debate on US participation in Iraq, Brown-Waite invoked Larry the Cable Guy and professed the following :'' In the South, we have a wonderful saying and it goes like this : Get ` er done.
Craig Crawford	In the 2008 Presidential campaign, Crawford drew attention for his vigorous defense of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton following President Clinton's response to a press question about why it'' takes two of you'' to beat Barack Obama, stating'' Jesse Jackson won in South Carolina twice, in'84 and' 88, and he ran a good campaign, and Senator Obama's running a good campaign.''
Shepard Fairey	In his December 8, 2010 appearance on'' The Colbert Report'', Stephen Colbert asked Fairey how he felt about having done the'' HOPE'' portrait of Obama and how'' that hope was working out for him now ?''
James M. Gavin	President Jimmy Carter, in 1977, considered the 70-year-old Gavin for CIA Director, before settling on Adm. Stansfield Turner.
Bernhard Goetz	In 2004, Goetz was interviewed by Nancy Grace on Larry King Live, where he stated his actions were good for New York City and forced the city to address crime.
Rick Perry	In April 2008 while appearing as a guest on CNBC's Kudlow & Company, he specifically stated that he would not agree to serve as Vice President in a McCain administration, stating that he already had'' the best job in the world'' as governor of Texas.
Leon Panetta	In 1994, President Clinton asked Panetta what was wrong with his administration and was told about the lack of order in the White House.
Barbara Olson	Olson was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay : The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999).
Kim Beazley	At a press conference on 17 November 2006, Beazley confused the name of grieving TV host Rove McManus with President Bush's adviser Karl Rove.
Mar?a Corina Machado	When the state-run television channel interviewed Machado, they ran images of her Oval Office meeting in 2005 with George W. Bush, described by an Associated Press reporter as'' Chavez's longtime nemesis''.
Barton Gellman	; 2008 According to The Los Angeles Times, Gellman's reporting'' brought out previously unknown details on how Vice President Dick Cheney acquired unprecedented power within the Bush administration.''
Karl Rove	On November 7, 2012, Rove protested Fox News' call of the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama, prompting host Megyn Kelly to ask him,'' Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better ?
Bill Maher	In an episode of his show about the 2008 presidential candidates' health plans, Maher stated that poor nutrition is a primary cause of illness, and that'' the answer is n't another pill.''
Dick Morris	In Morris's article in The Hill, he identified some'' key mistakes'' by the Obama campaign, which he stated would cost Obama the election : On November 7, 2012, the day after the election, Morris published an article in The Hill titled'' Why I was wrong''.
Lianne Dalziel	Following months of speculation, The Press reported on 20 April 2013 that Lianne Dalziel will challenge Parker for the mayoralty, and that she has asked 24-year-old Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson to be her running mate, with a view of Johnson becoming deputy mayor.
Elisabeth Bumiller	At a panel discussion sponsored by Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism on November 4, 2004, in Washington, D. C., Bumiller stated,'' You ca n't just say the president is lying.''
Kent Nerburn	Nerburn's book Neither Wolf Nor Dog was chosen as the common book for the `` Eden Prairie Reads'' campaign in 2004, a program that encouraged everyone in this Minneapolis suburb to read the book and discuss it in various venues.
Ronald Greenwald	left | thumb | Ronald Greenwald meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti regarding an upcoming trip to -LSB- -LSB- Libya to meet Libyan President Muammar al-Gaddafi -RSB- -RSB- On February 3, 1986, the ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings credited Rabbi Greenwald with playing a role in the negotiations for the release of Sharansky and featured a video clip of Rabbi Greenwald expressing optimism that Sharansky would be released.
Bill Moyers	Moyers stated that his hard-hitting coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush were behind Safer's 1990 allegations.
Paul Broun	TSA On Fox News in May 2011, Broun said regarding political correctness,'' Well, Shannon, what happened at the airport is, uh, an elderly lady walked -- ah, followed me behind in the -LSB- TSA -RSB- screening process, and she was patted down.
Steve King	In mid-January 2009, King acknowledged that terrorists were not dancing in the streets, and in fact'' They have made statements against Obama.''
Whoopi Goldberg	Goldberg was involved in controversy in July 2004 when, at a fundraiser for John Kerry at Radio City Music Hall in New York, Goldberg made a sexual joke about President George W. Bush, by waving a bottle of wine, pointing toward her pubic area and saying :'' We should keep Bush where he belongs, and not in the White House.''
William Bennett	On September 28, 2005, in a discussion on Bennett's Morning in America radio show, a caller to the show proposed the idea that the Social Security system might be solvent today if abortion had n't been permitted following the Roe v. Wade decision.
Katherine Harris	Although Rollins recalled discussing the $ 2,800 meal with Harris, Harris told the Orlando Sentinel on April 19, 2006, that the cost of the meal was'' news to me'', and that her campaign had since'' reimbursed'' the restaurant for the cost of the meal.
Dick Cheney	In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next Secretary of Defense ; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said,'' I had other priorities in the'60s than military service''.
Bob Woodward	David Gergen, who had worked in the White House during the Richard Nixon and three subsequent administrations said in his 2000 memoir, Eyewitness to Power, of Woodward's reporting,'' I do n't accept everything he writes as gospel -- he can get details wrong -- but generally, his accounts in both his books and in the Post are remarkably reliable and demand serious attention.
Mary Tyler Moore	However, during a 2011 interview with former castmate Ed Asner on the O'Reilly Factor, Asner stated that Moore'' has become much more conservative of late.''
Erich Priebke	In 1994, 50 years after the massacre, Priebke felt he could now talk about the incident and was interviewed by American ABC news reporter Sam Donaldson.
Jonathan Pollard	Former White house legal counsel, Bernard Nussbaum, wrote a letter on January 28, 2011, to President Obama stating that he extensively reviewed the Jonathan Pollard file while he served in the White House.
Jack Cafferty	On the September 26, 2008 edition of The Situation Room, Cafferty criticized Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's Vice Presidential nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin after she did what he referred to as a'' disastrous interview'' with CBS news anchor Katie Couric when she could not clearly answer Couric's questions about the federal government's intervention into Wall Street.
Reichen Lehmkuhl	His autobiography Here's What We'll Say, about his time in the Air Force under the military's commonly called'' Do n't ask, do n't tell'' policy, was released by Carroll and Graf on October 28, 2006.
Jack Williams (American politician)	With the election of 1932 approaching, Williams created a news program titled I Vote For in which he asked people from around the state who they intended to vote for and later played the recorded answers.
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)	In another appearance on the same program on February 10, 2004, O'Reilly responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge :'' My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry.
Dan Rather	At a 2008 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsored by the group Free Press, Rather criticized both local and national news organizations, stating -- according to reports -- that there is no longer incentive to do'' good and valuable news.''
Curt Schilling	During a radio show appearance on May 8, 2007, Schilling criticized Barry Bonds, stating :'' He admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes and cheating on the game.''
Fred F. Fielding	However, according to Time magazine in July 2009, Fielding opposed Cheney's request that President Bush issue a full pardon to convicted vice presidential aide Scooter Libby.
Conrad Burns	During a debate in 2006 against Democratic opponent Jon Tester, Burns commented that he was on the telephone with his contractor when he saw an interview with an illegal immigrant on television.
Shawn O'Hara	After his party nominated Ralph Nader as presidential candidate in 2004, O'Hara said he hoped Nader could spoil the election :'' I'm doing everything I can to make sure John Kerry never gets around the White House.''
Jonathan Pollard	On February 16, 2011, Arlen Specter wrote a letter to President Obama, stating that, as the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he believed Jonathan Pollard should be pardoned and released from prison.
Michael Beschloss	President Clinton told People Magazine in December 1997 that the first audiobook he had ever listened to was Taking Charge by Michael Beschloss.
Edwin Edwards	Bush denied a pardon for Edwards before he left the presidency on January 20, 2009.
Tony Bennett	Bennett also claimed that former President George W. Bush personally told him at the Kennedy Center in December 2005 that he felt he had made a mistake invading Iraq, to which a Bush spokesperson replied,'' This account is flatly wrong.''
Donald Trump	In October 2007, Trump appeared on Larry King Live and delivered a strong criticism of then-United States President George W. Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq War.
Larry Craig	In October 2005, Craig suggested that flooded sections of New Orleans should be abandoned after Hurricane Katrina had hit and was quoted on a Baton Rouge television station as saying that'' Fraud is in the culture of Iraq is.
Rachel Lambert Mellon	Mellon expressed interest in the John Edwards campaign as early as 2004, because he reminded her of President Kennedy, but when she called his campaign office with an offer to help, no one recognized her name and she was n't called back.
Barry Zorthian	His daily afternoon briefings for press correspondents... were dubbed `` Five O’Clock Follies'' by reporters frustrated by the lack of complete transparency... New York Times Correspondent, Gloria Emerson, declared him' a determined and brilliant liar' at a 1981 conference on the Vietnam War.
Daniel Rodr?guez	January 2009, he appeared on TV NZ for a live interview discussing events at the upcoming inauguration of U. S. President elect, Barack Obama.
Giorgio Napolitano	In 2006, when Napolitano was elected President of the Italian Republic, Gardner stated to AP Television News that he considered Napolitano'' a real statesman'','' a true believer in democracy'' and'' a friend of the United States -LSB- who -RSB- will carry out his office with impartiality and fairness''.
Colin Powell	At the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, Powell revealed that he had spent two and a half hours explaining to President Bush'' the consequences of going into an Arab country and becoming the occupiers.''
Stacy Head	In a mid-March 2009 interview on WVUE - TV New Orleans Channel 8 (Fox), Nagin said, with regard to the councilmembers' e-mail messages, that White had'' followed the policy'' ; Nagin declined, however, to rule out disciplinary action in either White's case or that of the city's Chief Technology Officer, Harrison Boyd, who supplied the e-mail messages to her.
Taylor Branch	Branch's book on former president Bill Clinton, The Clinton Tapes : Wrestling History With The President, was written from many tape-recorded interviews and conversations between the two, most of which occurred in the White House during Clinton's two terms in office and which were not disclosed publicly until 2009 at the time of the book's publication.
Tom DeLay	In early September 2006, ahead of the season three premiere episode, DeLay wrote,'' Sara Evans has been a strong supporter of the Republican Party and represents good American values in the media.
Katie Couric	The Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric were a series of interviews Couric conducted with 2008 U. S. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Mitt Romney	In March 2013, Romney gave a reflective interview on Fox News Sunday, stating,'' It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done''.
Ben Affleck	Despite his opposition to George W. Bush's policies as president, in an interview with Bill O'Reilly in July 2004 Affleck said,'' I had the pleasure of and the honor of meeting the President of the United States at the Daytona 500.
George J. Terwilliger III	And the fact that people were hounded, pursued, over alleged false statements, I mean, do we hear an echo here to the complaints from the left and from Democrats about an independent counsel hounding somebody for...'' During the Florida 2000 election recount, Terwilliger led Republican President-elect George W. Bush's legal team and was'' an advisor to the Bush-Cheney Transition and counselor to designated cabinet and other prospective appointees.''
Rudy Giuliani	In February 2007 he filed a'' statement of candidacy'' and confirmed on the television program Larry King Live that he was indeed running.
Jack Gordon (entertainment manager)	In 1999, Gordon claimed that Paula Jones, a pivotal figure in the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, had confided in him that Clinton had not sexually harassed her as she originally claimed.
Chad Griffin	In a May 2012 Meet the Press appearance, Biden recounted that, at a private dinner with LGBT campaign donors, he had been asked'' How do you feel about us ?''
Artur Davis	In February 2012, Davis told Politico that some Democrats wanted to argue that Obama's critics were motivated by racism, which Davis called'' a huge mistake... a tactic that's likely to backfire'' as it would lead'' substantial number of Americans'' to believe they were being called racists because they did not support Obama.
Michael D. Brown	On March 1, 2006, AP released a recording of Brown and Bush in a video conference in which the vulnerability of the levee system was raised with a great deal of concern over potential loss of life.
Dan Savage	After Rick Santorum, then a United States senator from Pennsylvania, made comments to a reporter comparing homosexual sex to bestiality and incest in 2003, Savage assailed Santorum in his column.
Albert B. Fall	As a leading antagonist to Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Fall was permitted to visit the stricken President in his White House bedroom in October 1919, hoping to gauge whether the Chief Executive was well enough to remain in office.''
Lesley Stahl	At the Republican Convention of 1980, she broke the news on CBS that Reagan's negotiations with ex-President Ford had broken down and the answer to the question of who would be vice-presidential nominee was :'' It's Bush !
Lyndon B. Johnson	However, when a reporter asked on October 31, 1963, if he intended and expected to have Johnson on the ticket the following year, Kennedy replied,'' Yes to both those questions.''