To use a metaphor decidedly popular at the White House these days, Robert Gibbs was still tossing his warm-up pitches and the first batter was just stepping to the plate at his first briefing for the White House press corps when the realization hit him. "I can remember thinking, 'Wow! I'm out here really doing this'," he said later.
As the third full week of the administration ended, Gibbs was still out there as the public face -- he prefers "pinata" -- of the White House. And he was still smiling, particularly after some early favorable reviews.
"So far, so good," said Marvin Kalb, a longtime Washington journalist who heads the Kennedy School of Government's Washington programs and is a senior fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "Like Robert Redford in the movie 'The Natural,' I think Gibbs is a natural. All of his instincts are that of a transmitter of information."
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