Word: mcginniss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss...
...Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss...
...World War II Navy veteran-was a senior vice president and second in command at CBS. Then he lost out in a company power struggle. In 1968, he ran Richard Nixon's successful television campaign and gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What a break! This Czech thing is just perfect. It puts the soft-liners in a hell...
...Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss...
According to McGinniss, the studio panel was carefully preselected. "First, this meant a Negro," he writes. "One Negro. Not two. Two would be offensive to whites. Two would be trying too hard." The audience was "recruited from the local Republican organiza tions," and cued for applause. Ailes also stage-managed Nixon's appearance...