Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needing some background for his review, Gissen managed to arrange for the only interview Eisenhower would grant before publication date. It was to be off the record and was to last 15 minutes. When he was ushered into the general's office on the Columbia University campus, Gissen shook hands and said: "Well, general, the last time I saw you we were both covered with mud." Eisenhower wanted to know where that was and when. Gissen recalled a scene in France in November, 1944 when he and other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village...
General Eisenhower remembered the incident, rattled off the units that were there, the next day's plan of attack and the result. Then they were off and, an hour and a half later, the 15-minute interview ended...
...American reporter assigned to the Van Waters case was James J. Delaney, whose name popped up in the recent hearing before McDowell. Dr. Van Waters' attorney, Claude B. Cross, accused Delancy of obtaining the name and address of an indentured inmate from the Commissioner's office, and attempting to interview and photograph her under false pretenses. It was an interesting instance of the American' journalistic methods, and for a lot of people, it made the odor of the Hearst tabloid's earlier effort at "exposes" with the Dwyer report more pungent...
...give interviews is suicidal. The statement ascribed to me [from a San Francisco Chronicle interview] about the "muskets at Cressy" being "as effective in their time" as the atom bomb burdens me with two absurdities. The first was my fault; I should have remembered, even in the excitement of being interviewed by two fair women, that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased...
...cannot be used as an instrument in any international political maneuver. It will not be so used by the U.S." He added pointedly: "If I on my part were seeking to give assurance of seriousness of purpose, I would choose some other channel than the channel of a press interview...