Word: kilduff
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...assassination is that of a man overwhelmed "While he had already succeeded to the office, he didn't realize it, and the slumped figure in the hospital bore little resemblance to the shrewd, assured President Johnson the country came to know." Kennedy's assistant press secretary Mac Kilduff, reported that on addressing Johnson as "Mr. President" for the first time, he "looked at me like I was Donald Duck." In the confusion Secret Service agents urged Johnson to take the J.F.K. presidential plane out of Dallas. It was L.B.J. who balked at the idea and flatly refused...
...room at the top without writing a line about the Cuban crisis or J.F.K.'s opinion of Dean Rusk. Andrew Hatcher, a Negro who earned $18,000 as assistant White House press secretary, is now market-promotions manager for the Ballantine beer outfit. Another former press aide, Malcolm Kilduff, whose chief claim to fame is that he announced Kennedy's death to the press in Dallas, is in the $50,000-a-year bracket as a partner in a Washington public relations firm...
...advised Assistant White House Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff to withhold news of Kennedy's death until it could be determined whether a "Communist conspiracy"-those were Johnson's words-was involved. With an eye already fixed firmly on the history books, he urged Lady Bird to take notes of everything that happened, had Kilduff scare up a Dictaphone for his swearing in, made sure that newsmen...
...sure it was something like 'God help us all,' because my feelings for her were too tumultuous to put into words." Lady Bird spoke next with Nellie Connally. "Then I turned and went back to the small white room where Lyndon was. Mr. Kilduff [Assistant Press Secretary] and Kenny O'Donnell were coming and going. I think it was from Kenny's face and Kenny's voice that I first heard the words, The President is dead.' Mr. Kilduff entered and said to Lyndon, 'Mr. President.' " Lady Bird recalled the tense drive...
...happened, every newsman present knew that L.B.J. likes to give the impression that he is the original author of all of his speeches. A reporter coyly asked how a speechwriter (nonexistent) could possibly put anything into a speech that the President himself had written. Kilduff, painted into a corner by L.B.J.'s little fiction, could only smile ruefully and say to the reporter: "You son of a bitch...