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...institution of the presidency, Reston pays too little attention to the fact that Nixon's presidency is not worth saving. Reston's fascination with powerful men, especially American presidents, goes back to his early reporting days. He respected Roosevelt and the way he ran the war, he admired Truman's straight-forwardness, he regarded Eisenhower as a light-weight. He both praised and criticized Kennedy, Johnson confused him, and Nixon confounded him. But while Reston could vilify the man, he maintained his awe of the office...
Biography of Harry S. Truman...
...Check. The second sentence did refer, albeit a bit ambiguously, to Nixon. Post Staff Writer Tim O'Brien, watching the telecast, apparently misheard Goldwater's reference to Truman. Fastening on the last mention of Nixon, O'Brien wrote his story...
Within hours, Goldwater and Meet the Press viewers were on the phone to the Post, pointing out the error. The damage had been partially contained: both the A.P. and U.P.I, wire services carried correct references to Truman as Goldwater's "best President" in their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post...
...Comfort (2) 2-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (1) 3-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller 4-The Best of Life, edited by David E. Scherman (5) 5-The Imperial Presidency, Schesinger 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (3) 7-In One Era and Out the Other, Levenson 8-Pentimento, Hellman (10) 9-Will Rogers, The Man and His Times, Ketchum 10-Portrait of a Marriage, Nicolson...