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Who Speaks For the President? - The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton (Hardcover, New)
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Who Speaks For the President? - The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton (Hardcover, New)
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When President Warren G. Harding fell ill in 1923, Steve Early, a
reporter for the Associated Press, became skeptical of the
innocuous bulletins being issued by the White House. He remained at
the hotel where the president was staying, and when Florence
Harding called out for a doctor, Early scrambled down a fire escape
to file the story. His Associated Press report was six minutes
ahead of others with the news of Harding's death. A decade later,
when Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House, Steve Early
became the first person to hold the title of presidential press
secretary. Mike McCurry, Jody Powell, and Marlin Fitzwater have all
become familiar names. But how has the role of the White House
press secretary changed over the years? We see these spokespeople
at White House briefings, hear them quoted by reporters-but what do
they really do? Whom do they really serve: the president, or the
press? In his latest book, former Associated Press journalist and
White House reporter W. Dale Nelson provides an insightful look at
what has gone on behind the scenes of the White House press podium
from the 1890s to the present-day Clinton administration. Nelson
draws on interviews with former press secretaries, press office
records, and his own experience as a White House reporter to trace
the history of the position, from its early, informal days to its
present, seminal role in the Clinton administration.
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