Word: johnson
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...inviolable than the one between a journalist and a confidential source. So six days before Minnesota's 1982 gubernatorial election, Cohen, a Republican Party activist and public relations director of one of the city's most prominent advertising agencies, alerted four local political reporters to a juicy story: Marlene Johnson, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, had been convicted of shoplifting $6 worth of sewing supplies from Sears twelve years earlier. The reporters were free to use the information, Cohen said, so long as they did not identify him as the source. All four agreed...
...Minneapolis Star Tribune returned to their newsrooms, their editors overruled the promises of confidentiality. Cohen's close ties to Republican Candidate Wheelock Whitney, the editors argued, made his identity a matter of importance to readers. Both papers reported the incident, naming Cohen as the source of the leak. MARLENE JOHNSON ARRESTS DISCLOSED BY WHITNEY ALLY, declared the front-page headline in the Star Tribune. Columnist Jim Klobuchar, a friend of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rudy Perpich, then decried Cohen as a "sleazy" player. Cartoonist Steve Sack drew Cohen trick- or-treating at Perpich headquarters dressed as a trash can labeled "Last...
Summer Jazz '88 continues in Marblehead with the music of Clarinetist Dick Johnson and the Swing Shift on Friday at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 80 Washington St. Tickets for the weekly program start at $10.50 in advance and $11.50 at the door. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Call...
...Senate leader, related the sad tenure of "Cactus Jack" Garner, who had called the office nothing more than a "pitcher of warm spit," and said Speaker Sam Rayburn had told him to stay far away from it. If he could not be President, he would stay in the Senate, Johnson had told me with such rage and finality -- his nose an inch from mine -- that I chalked...
Kennedy listened, grinned, nodded. We both were awed and amused by the tumultuous Johnson. "Have you decided on a vice-presidential nominee?" I asked. "Yes," answered Kennedy. "Can you tell me?" I asked. "I will if you promise not to publish it," J.F.K. replied. "Senator, don't do that to me," I implored. "We've got two days before the magazine is printed, and I'm sure the name will leak. I don't want to be bound. So don't tell me." Kennedy gave a wry smile, said...