He (or she) would be pro-active, approachable, knowledgeable and good company for journalists, without being sycophantic to them.

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At the time, the speech received so much applause from the sycophantic audience of top officials and lawmakers that he had to tell them to be quiet, adding that they might not like to hear everything he had to tell them.

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