Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic. "I think he wanted to believe in love and faithfulness and all that but what...
Hamilton wrote that Kennedy's Harvard friends, noting his humor and talent for writing, believed he would eventually become a journalist...
...What such friends could not easily see...was that Jack's refusal to be a `mere' journalist reflected his inherent determination to be a derring-doer, not simply an observer," Hamilton wrote...
...associate editor Priscilla Painton and senior writer Walter Shapiro, it was the end of a long road. Since July one or the other has been at Clinton's side almost nonstop. Some pundits think this kind of close-in coverage blurs a journalist's objectivity. Counters Painton: "You can read all the position papers and interview all the campaign staff you like, but there is nothing like spending 17 hours a day with someone to get a feel for his presidential character...
Litwack also presented slides of Beals' extensive portrait portfolio, which included photographs of Mark Twain, journalist Ida Tarbell, and Presidents Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt...