When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
From Theodore White
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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