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...aides, Kennedy used profanity, which his library archivists did not delete. He occasionally exclaimed, "Christ!" or "God!" Like most Presidents, J.F.K. was keenly concerned about press play. He suggested to aides that maybe they ought to "knock down" an unfavorable story by the New York Times's James Reston, adding, "That's just kicking that Reston right in the balls...
Leonard Greenberg Reston...
From 1949 to 1962 MacLeish was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, where we see him inviting the likes of Acheson, James Reston, Frankfurter, and Oppenheimer to come chat with the students in Eliot House, where he served as master. During these years he wrote J. B., the work for which he is best remembered, a verse play based on the story of Job. And in one concurrent letter he states the problem J. B. addresses, an ancient human quandary made even more pressing by the painful events of the twentieth century--"the problem of making sense, making...
...journalists seem to foresee continual frustration for Reagan in Year 3. Right-wing columnists like Buchanan and William Safire hope that Reagan can reassert his mastery with a State of the Union speech this week that stoutly repeats his old stands. Then there is the Times's Scotty Reston, grandee of the press corps, a septuagenarian like Reagan, a man more bemusedly tolerant these days than alarmed. He thinks Reagan will compromise when he has to, as he has done before, and then will "probably announce with a smile . . . that he's going home to the sunshine...
Janice Moglen-Dietrich Reston...