Word: whitely
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Washington Post editor Benjamin C. Bradlee '43-'44, New York Times Washington correspondent R.W. Apple and Higginson Professor of History emeritus John King Fairbank gathered to honor journalist Theodore H. White '38 and inaugurate an annual lecture in his honor...
...White, who died in 1986, was a groundbreaker in political writing, establishing a new way of reporting presidential politics in his Making of the President 1960 and the subsequent 1964 and 1972 editions...
...Teddy...began a new genre of books with his attention to detail and his intense attention to people," said Bradlee of White's books...
Apple described White as a pioneer who recognized the pivotal role television and campaign advertisements played in 1960, and who predicted their impact on future elections...
...Until White's books and articles, political journalism focused largely on the November general election, panelists said. But White demonstrated the importance of the primary system in the American political process, they added...