Ashcroft drops weekly conferences 

Posted: 1:00 am Fri, February 9, 2001
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Attorney General John Ashcroft has decided against holding a regularly weekly news conference like his predecessor Janet Reno did.“But he will continue to be just as accessible as previous attorneys general,” Ashcroft’s spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said Friday. Those officials, however, have varied widely in their accessibilityTucker would not commit Ashcroft to Reno’s pace of one ...