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Of course, making sure it’s as easy as possible for the media to get their material back to base is usually in the interest of the White House. It not only provides a transcript of every presidential utterance and background information on every place he’s visiting, it also invests a great deal of time and effort in what’s known in the trade as spinning . A steady stream of administration officials and foreign-policy experts circulates in the pressroom, seeking to cast the President’s word in the best possible light. The spinners gravitate most readily towards the television networks and the most important American newspapers. It’s not uncommon to see a correspondent composing a dispatch on a personal computer with a White House official at his or her side, should any extra advice or information be required. Despite, or at times because of, such close attention, relations between the White House and its traveling press corps are seldom on an even keel for long. Ruffled feathers have to be smoothed and confrontations resolved. On such occasions, small gestures can make a big difference.
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离我们不远站着的一位中年绅士也在眺望远景，他也是中国人，听我儿子讲得挺带劲，就非常自然地与儿子攀谈起来，饶有兴致地论及阿拉斯加在美国版图上所处位置的特殊性，因为该州与美国本土根本不搭界，它一边与俄罗斯的白令海峡相互对望，一边与加拿大毗邻，那地方原属沙俄领土，沙皇时代卖给美国。据说当时沙俄认为那是不毛之地，由爱斯基摩人居住，没有任何价值，美国肯出钱要它，何乐而不为呢!至于美国出于什么动机买下这块“冰天雪地”，那个答案似乎是尽人皆知，不足为奇的，但是那位绅士却特别强调，当时一些远见卓识的政治家，是因为阿拉斯加的地理位置具有战略意义的重要性而买下这块土地的。可是他们却不知道那里还有极大的经济价值，除了有人已经作过金矿的勘探外，地下还埋着丰富的、源源不断的石油宝藏，这怕是当初的卖主绝对预料不到的吧!
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