Word: vaccaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominations, nearly all of them appointed during the congressional recess. Topping the list were Chief Justice Earl Warren and Labor Secretary James Mitchell. ¶ Announced that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia would visit him in May. ¶ Wrote a letter to the Associated Press's Ernest ("Tony") Vaccaro on the occasion of his election as president of the National Press Club. As an "elected official," Ike wrote, Vaccaro must realize that the members would demand a program for reducing dues while balancing the club budget and providing bigger and better meals at lower prices. Vaccaro would have to ponder...
...some reporters, it looked as if Harry was being shot at by both sides. "Do you have any feeling of being a target?" asked the Associated Press's Tony Vaccaro. Of course not, answered the President. He would be a target for Eisenhower and the other Republicans, but he couldn't be a target for the Democrats. Reason: he is the key of the campaign; Stevenson will have to run on the Truman record as well as the record of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President is all in favor of new blood being infused into the Democratic Party...
...tightest clique is in the White House, where Press Chief Joe Short tries to maintain an air of impartiality to all newsmen. Actually, he slaps a lid on formal news announcements until he can reach Merriman Smith of the United Press, Robert Nixon of International News Service and Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press, or call in substitutes from their bureaus. But even Joe Short can't shut off leaks. Louis Johnson, an expert on leakage, admitted that he had discounted all the reports that he was being fired as Secretary of Defense until he read an exclusive story...
...BROKE NO AGREEMENT WITH MY COLLEAGUES AT WAKE. WE AGREED TO FILE A POOLED DISPATCH. THIS WAS WRITTEN JOINTLY BY THE A.P/S TONY VACCARO, BOB NIXON OF THE I.N.S., AND MYSELF. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO THE A.P., U.P. AND I.N.S. I DID NOT FILE ONE WORD OF INDEPENDENT COPY FROM WAKE...
Says A.P.'s Vaccaro: "It was Smith who suggested the pool arrangement and the copy was to be pooled all the way to San Francisco. The U.P., in clear violation of the agreement, broke in on the copy in Honolulu and telephoned the message to its San Francisco office." Says I.N.S.'s Nixon: "A.P. and I.N.S. had men in Honolulu, and could have behaved as the U.P. did -except for the ethics of it." Says Carleton Kent, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "Merriman Smith's . . . filing the communique twice, thus holding up the stories...