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...Graydon Carter...
When Jimmy Carter left the White House, he wished two enduring headaches on his successor: Israel's combative Prime Minister Menachem Begin and ABC News' abrasive White House correspondent Sam Donaldson. Last month, when Ronald Reagan spoke at a ceremony extolling the achievements of ABC News President Roone Arledge, Reagan added: "Sam Donaldson is a small price to pay." Not many people would cherish having provoked Chief Executives as diverse as Carter and Reagan. But Donaldson, 49, has gleefully made himself perhaps the best-known TV reporter in America by asking pertinent questions of Presidents in the most...
...public that often regards the White House press corps as a pack of hounds baying at whatever misfortunate occupies the Oval Office, Donaldson can seem the loudest and meanest coon dog of all. He asked Carter whether he was competent to be President. (Donaldson's judgment: no.) He suggested to Reagan that his presidency was "failing" and asked if it was true that he had to be "dragged back to making realistic decisions" by aides. To lesser officials Donaldson can be, if anything, ruder: at a press conference preceding an international economic summit, when Secretary of State George Shultz...
...recent ban on asking questions during "photo opportunities." With few exceptions, colleagues praise Donaldson for his nerve and enterprise. Says an NBC competitor: "There are so few opportunities to talk to the President that there is something to be said for leading the charge." Jody Powell, the Carter Administration press secretary who is now an ABC colleague of Donaldson, recalls, "When I got to the White House in the morning, there were usually two reporters there to greet me: Helen Thomas of U.P.I, and Sam." President Reagan's deputy press secretary, Larry Speakes, says, "I think he sets...
...before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that in supporting Britain...