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Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
  • choice and phrasing; the new mission for the marines in 1965; government's right to withhold information; the press' ability to get the information it seeks; how McCloskey obtained information; McCloskey's "thought, word and deed" message on 1967 war
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • newspapers, had their best on the beat: Murrey Marder, Chal [Chalmers] Roberts of the Washington Post; Ned [E. W.] Kenworthy, Bill Jorden, Max Frankel of the New York Times; Pete Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News; John Cauley of the Kansas City Star; Paul
  • McCloskey’s work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press