Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your Jan. 12 Press story, "Protecting the Source": the national press seems to have made a martyr of Marie Torre. An irresponsible press has no place in a nation founded on freedom, because a man is not free if he is not protected by law from the spreading of malicious gossip about himself. If the law did regard the relationship between a reporter and his source of information as confidential, what would protect the individual from being slandered by an irresponsible columnist who could disclaim responsibility lor his malicious actions by pleading "confidential relationship...
President Eisenhower, concerned in press conference about 5,500 Navy children locked out or threatened at Norfolk, raised a question about the South that applied to Governor Almond: "Is the citizen, be he an official or be he a man that is working in civil life and outside the Government, ready to obey the laws of his state and his nation...
President Eisenhower tore straight into the gathering battle over his newly offered balanced budget for 1960. Those who complained about the $77 billion budget, said Ike with rare punch at his press conference, are affected by "what might be called budgetary schizophrenia . . . They are on all sides...
Just before addressing a group of New Mexico Democrats in Albuquerque, Johnson told a press conference that he was "not a candidate, would not be a candidate and would not permit anyone to make me a candidate" for President. Whereupon New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson introduced him to the throng as "A man I firmly believe will be the next President of the U.S." Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp...
...beginning. It was the most heavily Democratic Congress since the glad, gone days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist, gone clean out of this world...