Word: shannons
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...reporter has been diluted by distance. The President may find in the long run that television may not be such a good idea after all. Accessibility of the President is fine, but the presidency must not become commonplace." Televising the conference, said New York Post Capital Correspondent William V. Shannon, is "like televising a locker room after a World Series game. Superficially, nothing has changed. But the spontaneity is gone; 180 million people have suddenly become players in the game...
Among Washington's younger political columnists, few might have been expected to cheer more loudly for the Kennedy Administration than balding William V. Shannon, 33, pundit-in-residence for the liberal New York Post...
Massachusetts-born, Bill Shannon graduated from Clark University in 1947, wrote a political history of the Irish in Massachusetts while studying for a master's degree in history at Harvard under Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who called him "the most brilliant student I ever had." Then he sailed a few miles down the Charles River to M.I.T. to help edit the letters of Theodore Roosevelt under Historian Elting E. Morison, won his reporter's ribbon in 1950 as a State Department legman for pugnacious. New-Dealing, syndicated Columnist Robert S. Allen, with whom he co-authored The Truman...
Between the Lines. As a Post columnist since 1957, Shannon regarded Dwight Eisenhower's biggest failing as "not mobilizing the full energies of the American people in fighting the political cold war." But almost alone among the liberal pundits, he has never gone overboard for Kennedy. Even in a seemingly honeyed tribute to Kennedy just after the election. Shannon expressed between-the-lines doubts: "If the physical courage is matched by the political courage, if the intellectual brilliance is touched with enough compassion and imagination, if the canny political skill is ennobled by an occasional act of reckless daring...
Danger in Power. Last week Columnist Shannon went farther than ever before —,with a plea to intellectuals not to follow Kennedy blindly. Wrote he: "The love affair between the intellectuals and President Kennedy is a striking feature of the political scene. This romance may be fine from the viewpoint of Mr. Kennedy, but it is doubtful if it is a wise venture for the intellectuals...