question, probably because of when i came in to cover the white house and i had always admired mike mccurry and joe lockhart. marlon fitzwater as well as reagan's last press secretary was exceptional. what each of those secretaries would tell you is that the world has changed tremendously. one of the things that bill clinton's press secretary told each of his successors is that he apologizes for having been the press secretary who agreed to allow the briefing to be broadcast in full on television because prior to that decision, the white house daily briefing was only broadcast for the first 10 minutes was on air the cameras would be turned off. that was so tv correspondents could get what they need at the news and the rest of the briefing was off-camera. i think it is fair to say and i've experienced this every week, the difference in tenor and combativeness and that you see but that's between briefings we have in the briefing room in the white house that are on camera versus the ones i do when we travel on air force one is stark. i think that is partly because folks in the briefing room ar

question, probably because of when i came in to cover the white house and i had always admired mike mccurry and joe lockhart. marlon fitzwater as well as reagan's last press secretary was exceptional. what each of those secretaries would tell you is that the world has changed tremendously. one of the things that bill clinton's press secretary told each of his successors is that he apologizes for having been the press secretary who agreed to allow the briefing to be broadcast in full on television because prior to that decision, the white house daily briefing was only broadcast for the first 10 minutes was on air the cameras would be turned off. that was so tv correspondents can get what they need at the news and the rest of the briefing was off-camera. i think it is fair to say and i've experienced this every week, the difference in tenor and combativeness and that you see but that's between briefings we have in the briefing room in the white house that are on camera versus the ones i do when we travel on air force one is stark. i think that is partly because folks in the briefing room are