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...suddenly right there last week when Director William Colby granted TIME a rare on-the-record interview. This was quite a departure for the former Eastern European correspondent, who spent several years steering clear of all contact with the CIA. He explains: "In the Communist countries, Western newsmen are widely regarded by local authorities as licensed spies. That made us all the more chary about getting near the agency and its outposts, even for the legitimate purpose of seeing what...
...Howard Bruenn, then a 39-year-old lieutenant commander. Bruenn, a cardiologist, had been picked by the President's personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, who suspected F.D.R.'s heart trouble. After Bruenn reported his findings to Mclntire, the admiral not only kept telling newsmen that F.D.R. was fine, but it also seems clear that he never revealed to the President the true state of his health...
Roosevelt worked out ingenious ways of visiting Lucy at Tranquillity, the Rutherfurd family estate in northern New Jersey, while Secret Service men kept watch and newsmen wondered where he had gone...
...never been to a White House briefing or a presidential news conference. He does not entertain Cabinet officers at dinner parties or travel the chichi social circuit open to influential Washington journalists. He shuns the press clubs, including the one where other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another...
...media," he said, "flourish under scandal, disaster, tumult in any form they can get it . . ." Further, U.S. journalism virtually alone caused the "death of the civil rights movement." Epstein rapped newsmen for the decline in the quality of presidential campaigns and objected to "those odious Exxon and Mobil...