Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Were "steady in an emergency" and "panicked" coded references to Kennedy's failure to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne from his submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty...
...Carter did not have enough to annoy him last week, Vice President Walter Mondale, speaking in Cincinnati, declared: "If President Kennedy runs, and I expect him to run, he will be renominated and I am convinced re-elected." Two days later, the Associated Press sent an advisory message to its newspaper editors that began: "The House passed and sent to President Kennedy a bill to carry out final details of the Panama Canal treaties...
...group of his friends to discuss the war and the problems of our society. I invited them to the White House. The friends turned out to be a nun and two laymen who had been named as unindicted coconspirators in an alleged plot to kidnap me. When the press later learned of the meeting from my visitors, I was admonished by the Secret Service and the Attorney General...
These tendencies were given impetus by an interview I granted to the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, without doubt the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press. I saw her briefly on Nov. 2 and 4,1972, in my office. I did so largely out of vanity. She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown...
...style or, if you like, my technique." I do not believe that I said this in that context or that it was about myself. Ms. Fallaci has consistently refused to make the tapes available to other journalists. And yet she was on to something. The "peace is at hand" press conference had had an electric effect. Coming on top of a year of successful negotiations, it was for me a moment of unusual pride not leavened by humility. Fallaci caught that mood, even if she took liberties with my pronouncements. She wrote history in the Roman style; she sought psychological...