Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boldface type on many pages, along with a generous sup ply of pictures and color comics. Almost all the national and international news was left to the wire services, and there was the usual liberal-conservative mix of columnists: Howard K. Smith and Robert Spivak, Barry Goldwater and Doris Fleeson. The staffers concentrated on covering such local matters as supermarket boycotts and the pants-suit rage...
...sure when an official denial will leave him and his story out on a limb. Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-Namara, for example, recently attended a background dinner with reporters at which he remarked that nuclear weapons had not been ruled out for use in Viet Nam. Columnist Doris Fleeson, who was not at the dinner, got the details nonetheless. When she printed them, McNamara, following the established rules of the game, denied ever having met with reporters...
...candidacy, said the New York Times, "means that for the first time in years, the minority party is presenting a candidate who offers a real choice to the voter, who will fight a real contest, and who has a real chance to win." The Post's Doris Fleeson called Lindsay "a great thoroughbred with breeding and heart." All 13 of Lindsay's fellow G.O.P. Congressmen from New York issued a statement telling of the city's vital need for "the bold and vigorous and understanding leadership that a John Lindsay can give." Cried Republican State Chairman Carl...
...Peace Corps as the only New Frontier program that has surpassed either promises or expectations) : "As a public relations stance, the President's attitude has its advantages. It gives the impression that somehow today's problems will yield to patience and persistence. But will they?" Columnist Doris Fleeson got a ribald laugh out of Kennedy's press conference pronouncement. Wrote she: "President Kennedy has come out for the rhythm method of controlling reactions to the New Frontier...
...State of the Union message did evoke a scattered volley of praise, but even that was not so much for what Kennedy said but for how he said it. ''From his first sentence," gushed Columnist Doris Fleeson, "the President showed the new maturity and confidence bred by two hard years. The sophomoric buoyancy of the early days has disappeared." The pro-Democratic Washington Post went even farther. "Unexceptionable, unanswerable and irrefutable," it said of Kennedy's call for tax reduction and reform...