Word: salant
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...because of his skill at the corporate political game. In his campaign for the presidency, Stringer won the support of such key CBS News figures as Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt. He also sought the advice of two ex-CBS News presidents, Richard Salant and William Leonard, and Burton Benjamin, a longtime CBS News executive who retired last year. Benjamin, 69, had been offered the job of interim president but declined...
After receiving his Ph.D., Gilbert entered the ranks of the Roosevelt administration as an economic adviser to Harry Hopkins, one of the principal architects of the New Deal. Gilbert went on to become chief economist and director of research for Roosevelt's Office of Price Administration. Economist Walter Salant, of the Brookings Institute in Washington, called Gilbert "the outstanding, unsung hero of American wartime economic policy...
...very lucky in that my family was not seriously affected," says Richard S. Salant '35, former president of CBS News, now living in New Canaan, Ct. "Except for the headlines, and the fact that fathers of friends of mine jumped out of windows, I wasn't much affected...
...worthy paper much given to solemn defenses of its own probity. To submit to inside-the-craft judgments, the Times said, "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation. We will not furnish information or explanations to the council." That powerful opposition effectively doomed the council from the start. Richard Salant, then president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many of his network colleagues, including Walter Cronkite, did not share his keenness for a council...
Disappointed by its lack of impact, the council closed its doors last week. "The public doesn't seem to know we're here," lamented Salant, who had served as council president for the past ten months. "And worse yet, the press just didn't think we're very useful." Undaunted, he called the news council "a valid idea whose time has not yet come, but will in the near future." Perhaps...