Another aide put the guest's purse or cane on a table so it was not in the photograph.

The aide put him right - a matter of one word.

The aide put the telephone down angrily and turned back to the President.

The aide did not put a cost figure on the machinery.

The aide grimaced and put a second round into the back of his skull.

The President would no longer be, as one aide put it, "the inhibitor."

He has learned that "Washington is even more broken than we thought," as one aide put it.

The aides put no limit on how long they would be willing to continue the effort.

As one aide put it, "We're back to where we were with him in 1987."

He wanted, as one aide put it, "to create common ground, to make sure people understand what he's doing."