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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President-elect's press entourage, the baby's birth was the first crisis since the election. Newsmen had been filled in minute by minute as they flew back to Washington, but one inevitably sought detail was missing from the intimate picture. What did the baby look like? Pierre Emil Salinger. Kennedy's press secretary, seemed slightly flustered, could only stammer: "Aw, it looks like a baby ... It has some hair . . . The hair is dark . . . I'm very poor at descriptions of children...
After next January, Pierre Salinger will play a key part in reflecting the President to the U.S. public-though perhaps less so than Hagerty, their bosses being so different. Salinger is the first to say: "Hagerty is just about the greatest technician that ever came down the pike...
...Salinger will have some advantages over Jim Hagerty-as well as some disadvantages. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps out of old Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service, is far more accessible to the press, numbers several reporters among his closest personal friends. But White House reporters operate on a communal code, are likely to raise Cain with Salinger when favoritism is shown...
Salinger plans a major innovation in presidential press conferences: where Hagerty for the first time permitted filmed-and lightly edited-television versions of presidential news conferences, Salinger plans to authorize live TV conferences. "This would give the whole nation a chance to see the President as he actually answers the questions of reporters. We think it would be beneficial to the press," he says. Then, recalling Kennedy's television proficiency during the debates with Richard Nixon, Salinger adds: "And, indeed, we think it would be beneficial to all concerned...
...convictions had the habit of ringing like gongs; he refused to shoulder arms in World War I, for example, not on religious but on personal grounds (he later served with an ambulance unit in France). His pacifism sometimes sounded like appeasement at nearly any price. The Statesman was the first publication in Great Britain to advocate ceding the Sudetenland to Hitler. Early in World War II, the New Statesman hinted at a negotiated peace. It questioned the legality of U.S. intervention in Korea, editorialized: "The Communist offensive in Korea has given American imperialism just the opportunity it deserved." Recently...