S1e11- Lord John Marbury- ADDENDUM

Several folks have asked about what situation in Dee Dee Myers time as Press Secretary was similar to CJ's situation in S1e11- Lord John Marbury.  I've posted relevant quotes from relevant press conferences held by Ms. Myers and other links below!

Read my blog on this episode here.

Thanks for reading-

-jb


C.J. holds a press conference in which she belittles a reporter's information about an India-Pakistan flare-up-only to find out the next morning that an attack has, indeed, occurred, and that she alone among senior staffers was left out of the loop.
Did that ring a bell for Myers? "Yeah, of course. I think it happens to every press secretary. It certainly happened to me." Myers' C.J.-type incident occurred in January, 1994, after an assassination attempt on former President George Bush in which Iraqi involvement was suspected. In her Friday press briefing, Myers told reporters that the FBI was still looking into whether Saddam Hussein was involved and would eventually issue a report to Clinton; On Saturday, the U.S. bombed Baghdad, the president having already received and read the report.

Did it affect Myers' credibility? "Yeah, of course, what do you think? You have to go out there and raise a little hell, and go back to the press and say you've gotten some assurances that it will never happen again." But C.J. hasn't really raised hell or gotten those unequivocal assurances, something that actress Allison Janney is acutely aware of. "I tend to take up what my characters are going through, and I felt really angry. I said how can you do this to her?" says Janney. "I sort of wish that there would be some backlash from that, and also I hoped it would carry through to the NEXT-what it's like to go into the press room after having that happen."
"High-Stakes TV"
by Karin Lipson and Frank Lovece
February 27, 2000 - New York Newsday

Press Briefing from June 25, 1993
Q: And the FBI report on the assassination attempt against President Bush?
MS. MYERS: Again, we hear that it's in its final phases, but it's not complete.

Q: Did you say that the FBI report on the Bush assassination thing is expected in the next few days?
MS. MYERS: No, I said I understand it's wrapping up, but we don't have it yet.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=60084

Washington Post article from June 27, 1993
U.S. Navy ships launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service yesterday in what President Clinton said was a "firm and commensurate" response to Iraq's plan to assassinate former president George Bush in mid-April.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm

Press Briefing from June 28, 1993
MS. MYERS (responding to whether or not public opinion and polls had a role in the decision to order military airstrikes): It absolutely was not part of the calculation; absolutely was not. The President was presented with a series of facts that made it very clear that this was a case of state-sponsored terrorism against a former United States president, and that President Clinton took very direction action in response to that; there were no other considerations.
Q: How do you know that since you, by your own statements, were not part of any meetings having anything to do with this?
MS. MYERS: I've had a number of conversations about what happened.
Q: secondhand --
MS. MYERS: That's correct.