The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse

Author:Timothy Crouse [Crouse, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-8041-4983-9
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

* The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (New York, Signet Books, 1967), p. 377.

† The Resurrection of Richard Nixon by Jules Witcover (New York, Putnam, 1970), pp. 151–152.

‡ However, though nobody succeeded in smoking out the incumbent, in 1972 David Broder did nevertheless try to make the Democratic candidates commit themselves to weekly press conferences. “The point at which we have maximum leverage on these guys is the point at which they declare their candidacy for the White House,” Broder said later. “At the first conference that the candidate has after announcing, I would like to see the question routinely asked: ‘Are you willing to commit yourself now to holding weekly press conferences throughout your campaign and during your Presidency if you are elected?’ Just get them on record. I’ve argued this for some time, without any success at all. We did ask that question of Humphrey, Muskie and McGovern when they came to lunch at the Washington Post in early 1972 and we got fairly good responses.” Broder and Jim Naughton also tried to pin Muskie down to frequent press conferences at a late-night, off-the-record bull session at a motel in Portsmouth, N.H., in February.

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