Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squirted Malraux in the face with a syringe full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux. "It's just watercolor," cried Pinoncelli as the cops carted him away. "You won't even have to send your coat to the cleaner-just wash...
...minutes before a Miami Beach press conference, called last week to announce the new commissioner of baseball, one reporter asked an official if the name that was leaked earlier was indeed the choice of the team owners. "Yes," the reporters were told, "it is Bowie Kuhn, but please, gentlemen, act surprised." They did-but it was no act. Sportscaster Red Barber's reaction was typical: "Who? I never heard...
Fully aware that what he was saying would not appear until he was out of office, Lyndon Johnson sat down last May and wrote his view of the press for the 1969 Britannica Book of the Year. The result, described by L.B.J. as "the musings of a man who has seen the press only from the open end of the gun barrel," is an intriguing blend of accusation, sympathy and self-reproach...
...media. If I had it to do over again, I would try harder. My only stipulation would be an appeal to the news media to try harder also." He regrets that he did not hold more televised news conferences but claims that he averaged more informal, on-the-record press briefings than Eisenhower or Kennedy. He makes the valid point that these offer a chance to "explore questions in greater depth than in a televised spectacular...
...news," noting that he had three television screens in front of his desk, wire service machines behind it. Nixon has had them all moved out, but even so Johnson seems to foresee that the new President will also be affected by the tone of the news. He begs the press to treat Presidents more evenly-"instead of on a roller coaster that carried them from unreasonable heights at the beginning of their tenure to unreasonable depths once the honeymoon was over...