Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever a newsman's question was calculated to put Nixon on the defensive, he adroitly turned it into an attack on Brown. Thus, there came a question about a $205,000 loan made in 1956 to Nixon's mother by the Hughes Tool Co.. a giant defense contractor. The loan, which went to support the ailing grocery and restaurant business of Nixon's brother Donald, was made secretly through a Hughes attorney and secured by a filling-station lot owned by Nixon's mother in hometown Whittier. Donald went broke the following year...
When newly victorious John F. Kennedy was waiting to take office, a reporter approached the President-elect. Asked the newsman hesitantly, conscious that he and his publication had frequently been critical of Kennedy during the campaign: Would Kennedy continue to see him in the White House? Yes, said Kennedy. Then he added with a grin: "You and Marianne Means...
...newsman-hero of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the writer-hero of Luchino Visconti's La Notte. He has proved himself a masterful comedian with his current performance in Pietro Germi's Divorce-Italian Style. With credits like that, he understandably has no interest whatever in learning English. Hollywood has tried repeatedly to lure him, but young men seldom go for old tarts. "What is being done here in Italy," he says, "is far better and much more mature and advanced than anything cinematic being done elsewhere...
Mistake to Invade. After the plane incident, President Kennedy made clear that "U.S. armed forces will employ all means necessary for their own protection," but at his press conference he insisted, "I think it would be a mistake to invade Cuba." Are there Russian troops in Cuba? asked a newsman. From the hem and haw of his response, Kennedy seemed to be working from abysmally poor intelligence reports. "We don't have cornplete information about what's going on in Cuba,"he said.* Itwas an explanation that satisfied no one. On Capitol Hill, New York's Republican...
...there is a maverick in every outfit; Reporter Roger Simmons of the Florence News nourished a newsman's distaste for military regulations and was unspoiled by Washington obeisance to protocol. Ignoring the ban, he climbed a barrier and assaulted the stands where McNamara was watching an airdrop of 4,000 paratroopers...