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...White House press secretary for U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; in Cavaillon, France. Kennedy called Salinger, a hard-living onetime investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, "the voice of the White House." After serving in the two Administrations, Salinger went on to become abc News' chief correspondent in Europe; he won the prestigious George Polk journalism award in 1981 for his scoop on the U.S. government's secret negotiations to free American hostages held in Iran...
...ABC News President David Westin warned against the proliferation of opinion commentary in the news media at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday night...
...president of ABC News, Westin is responsible for all aspects of ABC News broadcasts, which include World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline and Good Morning America. From September 1994 until 1997, when he assumed his current position, Westin served as president of the ABC Television Network. Before joining ABC, Westin had been a partner at the law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering since...
...turn to indicate their approval or disapproval of what the candidates were saying. When the Democratic nominee noted the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary, to a person, they thought the remark was odd, jarring. "People thought it was uncalled for," Luntz found. In an ABC News poll, 2 of 3 voters said Kerry's reference to Mary Cheney was inappropriate, though 57% agreed with the larger point he was making--that homosexuals don't choose to be gay but rather are being "who they felt God had made them...
John Edwards' wife Elizabeth had another theory to explain Lynne Cheney's reaction. "I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences," Edwards said in an ABC radio interview. But there's no evidence that the Cheneys have treated their daughter with shame. After the vice-presidential debate, Mary and Heather both went up on stage with the rest of the family while the TV cameras were still rolling. Later Kerry said that he had meant to hail the Cheneys as an example of "the way strong families deal with this...