Word: fentress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House last week to report on this week's cover story, Correspondent Simmons Fentress was struck by an unusual degree of camaraderie between newsmen and the normally businesslike presidential aides. "The reporters," says Fentress, "were all talking about their internal time clocks being out of phase, and the sources were discussing, their stomach troubles." No wonder Everyone had just returned from twelve days of traveling 24,500 miles and traversing 24 time zones during President Nixon's whirlwind tour of Asia plus Rumania...
...from TIME'S standpoint, was there much rest for the weary. Fentress had hardly touched down in Washington when he was plunging into new interviews about the many issues confronting the President in the summer of 1969. His file provided the bulk of the research for the story written by Keith Johnson and edited by Laurence Barrett. And as the magazine went to press, where was Fentress? In a jet once more, flying west to San Clemente and the West Coast White House, where the President will spend the next month. All of which led Washington Bureau Chief Hugh...
Traveling around Virginia and Pennsylvania last week, White House Correspondent Simmons Fentress found that most people give Nixon good, if not spectacularly high marks on his first 60 days. At the same time, the President has made almost no headway at all in converting the young and the blacks, who still view him skeptically. Nor has the Administration squarely met any of the problems that dominated the nation in the campaign-crime, disorders, inflation...
There is a pattern to the people named to the Nixon Administration to date. "Those who have come front and center tend to be bland," reports TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress. "That doesn't worry the Nixon people at all. This is not an exciting crowd. Its campaign was not exciting, and its government is not apt to be. It recruits by the yardsticks of competence and loyalty and public acceptance. It is not trying to stir or to amuse. Competence may be the goal, but that doesn't mean politics is overlooked...
...Fentress: Nixon has the brains for the job, and probably the discipline and understanding America's Government and place in the world. The question is: Can he lead? Can he gain the trust of the Negroes, whom he has nearly ignored? And the youth who have marched out of the hall? Can he avoid the excessive cleverness that can in the end wreck public confidence...