Tag: White House

Cuba Redux – September 8, 1979

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – September 8, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Shades of October 1962, this day in September 35 years ago. A flurry of reports claiming the presence of Soviet troops on Cuban soil brought a wave of paranoia

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Glass House; Meet Stones – September 4, 1998

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 4, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day laced with tragedy and scandal, this 4th of September in 1998. The on-going scandal involving President Clinton and White House Intern Monica Lewinsky ebbed for a

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Another Hostage Crisis – June 19, 1995

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 19,1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another day in history fairly groaning with dismal familiarity, this June 19th in 1995. The six-day hostage drama at Budyonnovsk Hospital in Southern Russia finally came to an end,

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Insidious Inflationary Pressures – May 9, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – May 9, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this My 9th in 1997 was pretty much status quo for the 90s. The Economy and Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. The endless seesaw of inflation and

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People Like Dolly – March 4, 1997

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 4, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A Brave-New-World kind of day, this Tuesday March 4th in 1997. From the White House came word of the banning of Federal funds for research in the area

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The Clot Thickens – October 17, 1986

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – October 17, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of diplomatic wrangling, spin and damage control, this October 17th in 1986. Beginning with the White House sending former Attorney General Griffin Bell to Managua to

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