Mike Mccurry

Former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry is no stranger to well-aimed political attacks. After all, he held down the briefing room podium for Bill Clinton during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a task he compared to being a "human pinata." He was called "a stonewalling administration mouthpiece" who "perfected a plethora of dodges" and "was a master at speaking with charm, wit, self-deprecation and ease -- yet saying nothing."

Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry is coming aboard Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign as a senior advisor, officials said Tuesday, the latest in a series of former aides to Bill Clinton to join the Democrat's presidential bid in recent weeks. McCurry, who will not be paid, will begin traveling with the Massachusetts senator on his campaign plane Thursday.

White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, who with his verbal acrobatics and unflappable manner helped keep the Clinton presidency afloat through its rockiest days, is leaving the podium. The 43-year-old spinmeister, who will leave office after Congress adjourns this fall, had reportedly wanted to leave at the beginning of the year.

Former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry announced Wednesday that he will become managing partner of a newly formed venture called the Public Strategies Group, an international lobbying and public relations organization. "I look forward to bringing my experiences from the White House, the State Department and the political arena to the private sector," McCurry said. McCurry left his post as White House press secretary on Oct. 1.

In his 539th and last briefing in the White House press gallery, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Thursday that, while the president purposefully misled the country, he never did. McCurry was responsible for keeping a hostile press corps at bay throughout the seven months in which President Clinton was denying that he had had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky. "Frankly, the president misled me too, so I came here and misled you on occasion.

Two former White House press secretaries told a gathering of newspaper editors Friday that had they been working for President Clinton, they would have resigned by now. Speaking at a conference of more than 250 journalism executives, former Ronald Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes and former Lyndon B. Johnson spokesman George Christian said they would not work for a president who had lied to them outright.

Mike McCurry, President Clinton's beleaguered press secretary, Monday accused journalists of bias in their coverage of Clinton administration controversies and said the American people are more fair-minded and "more likely to believe in the presumption of innocence." McCurry, who has undergone what he termed four months of uninterrupted negative press coverage since controversy erupted over the president's relationship with former White House intern Monica S.

Michael D. McCurry assumed his post as President Clinton's press secretary Thursday and immediately demonstrated that he has the comedic skills necessary to work one of the toughest rooms in the world. McCurry cracked up reporters in the White House briefing room by saying that the workaholic Clinton had promised him "at least one conjugal visit a month" with his wife, Debra.