If the President wishes to salvage any honor from the next two years, he is obliged to do something in return.
It is a lesson that the supplicant President, too, might wish to absorb.
He wondered why the President wished to see him.
Then, the arms for hostages deal, whether the President wished it or not, was patently wrong.
The girl replied that she got a pair of skates, and the President wished the family a happy new year.
"We also believe that the President and his counsel may wish to call witnesses as part of their defense."
"The President wishes to pay the assessed contribution," he said.
I am happy to resume my own responsibilities, but if the President wishes to speak, he is welcome.
The White House now says the President doesn't wish a return of the committee.
What a President wishes the public to know, he tells it himself.