![]() ![]() Second, I must thank my comrades of the press - whose reporting at every level of America politics purifies, protects and refreshes our system from year to year.īut what did White think about U.S. This is from the first pages of The Making of the President, 1960:įirst, to the politicians of America - men whom I have found over the long years the pleasantest, shrewdest and generally the most honorable of companions … politicians and politics were just super. In other words, White publicly took the stance that U.S. ![]() ![]() Kennedy as a “forlorn and lonesome young man … lithe as an athlete … handsome and tired, with just a fleck of gray now in his glossy brown hair” who “baffled” the “old-line politicians of Tammany.” Then after Kennedy was assassinated, White helped Jackie Kennedy create the “Camelot” myth of his presidency. The 1960 version, which won a Pulitzer Prize and sold four million copies, describes John F. White invented the genre of modern presidential campaign books with The Making of the President, 1960(and then 1964, 19). Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. ![]()
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