"It's like a marriage," she said about the relationship with reporters.

Cook said after learning of the honor in a conference call with reporters yesterday.

"We have already taken steps to address this issue," she said in a telephone conference call with reporters.

"I received her because she asked for an audience," he said in an interview with foreign reporters.

"We let them down once," the officer said in a background session with reporters.

"I wasn't the person to make that commitment," he said on a conference call with reporters.

"It's not a desperate action," he said in a conference call with reporters.

"I certainly would think I'd be a regular," he said in a telephone conference call with reporters.

"I got a message from him, but that was about it," Johnson said during a conference call with reporters.

"I'm looking at it," he said in a meeting with reporters on Monday.