Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Department back into its once prominent pre-Kissinger role in both planning and executing foreign policy.* This has occurred in part because while Carter is indeed more intensely interested in world affairs than his predecessor, Gerald Ford, he is certainly no more so than John Kennedy or Richard Nixon. And as Carter has rushed to confront many problems both at home and abroad, he has sometimes stumbled by not availing himself of State Department expertise. The lesson has been a painful one for both Carter and Vance, but the President seems to have learned that while he must make...
...return to the useful pre-Nixon term to characterize the proper relationship of press and Government: independent?This definition assumes that the press will not print handouts without questioning them and is free to investigate wherever it suspects wrongdoing. And it more correctly describes the actual day-to-day relationship with Government, much of which is the gathering of information and the reportorial pursuit of understanding. Private briefings by policymakers become the insider's wisdom for many Washington columnists. Many officials and politicians speak to the press in private candor, trusting reporters to honor confidences and in return winning...
...static layout and a paucity of eye-catching pictures. The Trib often seemed overloaded with wire copy and canned columnists, undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...
Speaking before a crowd of about 150 people in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall, Brokaw mainly answered questions about his years as a White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations...
...Richard M. Nixon was not driven from office by the press--the press was also on trial during Watergate," Brokaw said. "We held back often, and got all our facts in order," he added...