Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Venezuela included a tire-squealing 60-m.p.h. climb from the sea-level airport up to Caracas, where Kissinger placed a wreath at the Simon Bolivar shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...
...Boston journalist, cooped up in the Carpenter with a few drinks under his belt, smiled quietly when he heard the story about the Reagan-Carter switch: "The kid's right, they're both exactly the same...
...wandering. At first glance, it's difficult to see how someone of Cockburn's credentials could be the logical successor to a maniac like Thompson. His fatner was Claud Cockburn, the British Communist journalist of the 1930's, and Cockburn himself started out on the editorial board of New Left Review, the kind of magazine which was the first to publish Althusser's "Contradiction and Over-determination" in English. But when confronted with American popular culture, he went wild. On a serious level, Cockburn is in the forefront of a group of leftist journalists writing in a wide variety...
...despite the awarding of prizes like the C.L. Sulzberger Memorial Plate and the Franco-Quinlan Memorial Tent, Cockburn is a serious and orthodox journalist. Unlike Thompson, he uses sources and formal interviews--he has credibility. Not only is he the best media critic in the country, he is seriously committed to social change, and is an important critic of society as well. His articles on the business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded...
Upon leaving the White House, Mollenhoff rejoined the Des Moines Register and Tribune as Washington bureau chief; the rest of his narrative deals with his role as a journalist during the unfolding of events which finally climaxed in Nixon's resignation. His position was ticklish; as a former government official he was not always favorably regarded by other journalists, and as a journalist he was avoided by loyal government officials. Even so, Mollenhoff did have an unusual amount of personal access to several Watergate personages--John Dean, Richard Kleindienst, Jeb Magruder--and he also had a clearer idea than most...