Word: spivak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Press questioners know better how to ask the brief, pertinent question, then get out of the way. But they would all be well advised to come equipped, as Lawrence Spivak dourly used to do every Sunday on Meet the Press, with index cards to quote from whenever the candidate says something that contradicts an earlier stand...
...seldom smiled, never allowed his guests to smoke, and in 28 years as moderator of NBC's Meet the Press turned the Q. and A. into a branch of the martial arts. Even so, when Lawrence Spivak, 75, faced his final guest, President Ford, and went on to a party in his honor last week, some 250 politicians and former panelists came by to bid farewell. Among those on hand...
Senator Ted Kennedy, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and James Farley, 87, Franklin Roosevelt's Postmaster General and Spivak's first Meet the Press TV guest back in 1947. The bonhomie pleased Spivak but did not soften him up. "Somebody once told me," he recalled with satisfaction, " 'you've made a career out of saying things other people would get punched in the nose for suggesting...
...appearance of President Bok on Lawrence Spivak's Meet the Press TV program will solve no problems. It will be seen by millions and may well exacerbate the situation. One pertinent question asked by an investigative newsman, who has done his homework, answered honestly by the President, may further expose existing maladjustments between university and faculty, to the millions watching and listening...
With regard to the public media, we need from you more willingness to participate and you deserve from us more guidance and help. Your agreeing to appear on [Lawrence] Spivak's program ["Meet the Press"] is one step; our capacity to brief you and--hopefully--the panel will be important. Here, and in the meetings discussed in the next paragraph, the planning must be more than tactical; preparations should include development of a theme or themes that might, for instance, settle on appropriate and inappropriate governmental roles in teaching and research, or a discussion of [President] Ford's views...