Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every recent Administration-not only Johnson's but also Dwight Eisenhower's and John Kennedy's-has been accused of manipulating the news, or at least of an occasional lack of candor. The press wants to know everything, preferably before it happens and preferably handed to it on a silver platter. Presidents and their Administrations naturally want to feed out information as they see fit, preferably in such a way as to make them look good. Last week Richard Nixon, who has always had trouble with the press, set up a system to cushion or deflect this...
There was some puzzlement, because Klein, a Nixon friend and adviser from the earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
More Through Television. For some months at least, Ziegler will probably preside over press briefings under the critical gaze of Nixon Aide Bob Haldeman, who used to be Ziegler's boss at J. Walter Thompson in Los Angeles. Haldeman is the most close-mouthed in dividual in Nixon's notably taciturn fraternity, and White House correspondents anticipate some barren days in the West Wing, even by the standards of L.B.J.'s aides, who were never famous for garrulity with the press...
...periodicals, but seldom has time for books. He views the world through habitually squinted eyes and speaks so softly that reporters must strain to hear him. He wept openly after Nixon's 1960 defeat and did so again, perhaps for different reasons, after Nixon's famous "last press conference" following the California gubernatorial election of 1962. With newsmen, he has preserved a reputation for efficiency and impartiality that will undoubtedly be more than a little useful in the months to come. In fact, Copley reporters covering Nixon campaigns used to grouse that Klein refused to grant them...
...press was milling around on the ground floor, and the Secret Service wanted to find a way out for me without running into the reporters. They took me to a private room and locked me up like a convict. They scouted the top floor and finally found an escape route. They brought me down on a freight elevator, then walked me through the kitchen to my limousine. But just as I got through the kitchen, some maid spotted me and let out a whoop. I ducked and hid my face. The last thing I wanted was for someone to start...