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Before that, I was at home during the epic 1960 election campaign between Nixon and Kennedy. I was always a political junkie. On election night I stayed up until 8 o'clock in the morning in my parents' house, watching the election returns with Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Sander Vanocur and John Chancellor. It was a seminal moment in broadcast journalism. Suddenly, all across America, the political process was actually brought into your living room. These dashing correspondents were able to make a living at this, covering campaigns and traveling the world. I was a pretty good writer and loved...
...closing, as the president drives down that highway along the California coast, grant him moments not only to balance the budget and halt the arms race, but also to relax on the ranch before Sandy Vanocur cuts in and tells him time...
...Irish Mafia, named by Sander Vanocur, then NBC White House Correspondent, still controlled the heartbeat of J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...scandal. When one stops, the others gather. Like blood beginning to clot, the aisle where Garrick Utley halts suddenly attracts Lesly Stahl, Sam Donaldson, and their assorted assistants. Tuesday afternoon, while most of the delegates stared unseeingly at the podium or talked with someone in an adjacent delegation, Sander Vanocur decided that the Massachusetts delegation needed visiting. Pretty soon, the Bay State section was full of more electronics and lights than Xenon's, the boisterous disco that last night hosted the Carter victory party. "It's all because of the blue phone and the red phone," a delegation aide explained...
Arledge goes first-class. Given a big news budget (ABC is no longer the cheapo among network news operations), he has recently hired such good people as Av Westin, Cassie Mackin, Sander Vanocur. Impatient with all the "back to New York" cues between items, Arledge is setting up what he calls "regional anchors." The Middle East anchorman and his correspondents pass the story along from one to another like Tinker to Evers to Chance, and talk endlessly above a shifting kaleidoscope of film, whose relevance is not always explained. Looking at the new ABC Evening News these days...