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...employed more former admen as top assistants after attaining office. H.R. Haldeman, Ronald Ziegler and Dwight Chapin, among others in the White House, all came from the advertising industry. Nixon's 1968 campaign script even led to a successful book, The Selling of the President 1968, by Joe McGinniss. It chronicled how Nixon's media men skillfully packaged his assets -and disguised his weaknesses-to present him to the American public...
Last week, as John W. Dean fired away at the President and his former top assistants, McGinniss expressed doubts that any conceivable advertising campaign could resell the President...
...didn't like him one bit. He had always seemed superficial to me. He had no dignity, no reserve." It was George McGovern describing Thomas Eagleton, and once his postelection silence on the subject was broken, he had plenty to say. As Author Joe McGinniss (The Selling of the President 1968) recounts it in the New York Times Magazine, McGovern feels great bitterness toward Eagleton and would do "anything that was necessary" to prevent his future nomination for President. Mrs. McGovern, he went on to say, had developed a "pathological" hatred for the press during the campaign, and since...
Commentaries by various observers are devastatingly revealing. Voorhis describes phone calls to voters by Nixon campaign workers in which he was accused of joining the communist conspiracy. Joe McGinniss explains the desperate attempt by Murray Chotiner, Nixon's early campaign manager, to get a filmed endorsement by Eisenhower from the General's death...
...employed at a political convention, a series of documentary films highlighting the President, his family and his party--it was a staggering example of what money can buy and of how well-financed media presentations can influence the electorate. Moreover, it was an amplified revival of the strategy Joe McGinniss' described in his book on Nixon's 1968 foray. "The Selling of the President...