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...that trip, and even out of their argument, Johnson and Rowan developed a mutual respect. And so last week, Johnson appointed Rowan, 38, to be director of the U.S. Information Agency-an appointment that is likely to please Negro voters this fall. He will succeed Edward R. Murrow, 55, who resigned to recuperate from an operation for lung cancer...
Flying to Southeast Asia in 1961 on one of his first foreign-policy assignments from President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was nervous and irritable. He vented his sensitivities on staffers, particularly on Carl T. Rowan, the press adviser the State Department had assigned to accompany him. Several times Johnson berated Rowan in front of newsmen. Several times Rowan talked right back...
...somewhat less public scrap, Rowan took exception to a sentence in a joint communiqué that Johnson was to propose to India's Prime Minister Nehru. Warned Rowan: "It's condescending and Nehru won't like it." Johnson forcefully disagreed. But sure enough, Nehru threw the paper on the floor when he read the offending line. Later, Johnson said to Rowan: "You were right. Just keep getting up when I knock you down." Then in obvious reference to the fact that Rowan is a Negro, Johnson added: "But I guess I needn't tell you that...
...Expose Dunghills? A charming man when he chooses to be, Rowan was born of impoverished parents in McMinnville, Tenn., left home in 1942 for college and became, at 19, one of the first Negroes to earn a Navy commission. After getting a master's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, he was hired by the Minneapolis Tribune as a copyreader, finally argued his way into a reporting job. The Tribune sent Rowan-long before racial strife was top news-into the South to see how much things had progressed for the Negro since Rowan...
...Right to Know." At State, Rowan continued to speak out. At the height of a furor over management of news by Government officials, Rowan urged newsmen to keep "responsible pressure" on those bureaucrats who are "scared to death of the press." But at the same time, said Rowan, too many newsmen are "scoop conscious" and "far more concerned about their reputations than about how well informed the American public is." When the House Subcommittee on Government Information criticized Rowan as "an official with an admitted distrust for the people's right to know," Rowan called the committee report "maliciously...