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harvey_rrit

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Sep 23, 2016 00:01

My Presidential press conferences will be unusual in that I will not behave toward the media as if I am their bitch ( Read more... )

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wombat_socho September 23 2016, 12:14:09 UTC

I think Nixon understood on an intellectual level that the press hated him and would do anything to make him look bad, but I don't think he ever really believed it in his heart, and couldn't stop trying to make them like him. Maybe the only journalist who ever reciprocated was, ironically, Hunter S. Thompson, who had a fairly civil conversation with him on Air Force One about football.

harvey_rrit September 23 2016, 15:02:52 UTC

I thought it was in a car, in '68.

And now I can't remember what book it's in, even if I knew where we have those books. Arg.

Anyhow, I offer America the spectacle of reporters being polite for the first time since The Amendment They Thought Of Right After The First started being violated.

wombat_socho September 24 2016, 00:06:41 UTC

Pretty sure it's in Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail 1972, and no, I don't know where my copy is either.

harvey_rrit September 24 2016, 04:50:28 UTC

Being literate is intrinsic.

Being this literate is work.