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1. www.politico.com › magazine › storyWhen Nixon Met the Press - POLITICO Magazine

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   Aug 6, 2014 · Though Nixon survived, the White House staff undermined the vice president with the press, as presidential aides are wont to do, and found a receptive audience.

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3. www.theatlantic.com › politics › archiveNixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On - The Atlantic

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   Aug 4, 2014 · Even though he lost his battle to remain in power, Nixon’s way of handling the press has prevailed in American politics. Intimidating journalists, avoiding White House reporters, staging events...

4. www.newyorker.com › the-presidency-and-the-pressRichard Nixon and the History of Presidential Hostility ...

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   Sep 24, 1973 · It is widely believed that Mr. Nixon came to detest the press because of the way it treated him in his 1960 race for the Presidency and in his 1962 race for the governorship of California.

5. www.thedailybeast.com › how-nixons-hatred-of-theHow Nixon's Hatred of the Press Led to His Downfall

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   Sep 5, 2017 · President Richard Nixon has become synonymous with scandal and failure in American politics — and his deep hatred of the press served a crucial role in his eventual downfall.

6. www.bunkhistory.org › resources › when-richard-nixonWhen Richard Nixon Declared War on the Media — Bunk History

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   Nov 8, 2018 · More than 40 years ago, Richard Nixon subtly changed the modern presidency. During past administrations, the American news media had always been referred to as “the press,” but Nixon, whose contentious relationship with the nation’s newsrooms was longstanding, tweaked that policy, and began labeling the press as “the media,” a term he ...

7. www.theatlantic.com › membership › archiveThe Other Time a President Went to War with the Media

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   Jan 25, 2018 · It was the newspapers that broke the story of the “Nixon Fund” during the 1952 presidential campaign—the $18,235 collected from wealthy contributors to help pay for his political expenses, or as...

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   How did Nixon handle the press?

   • Even though he lost his battle to remain in power, Nixon’s way of handling the press has prevailed in American politics. Intimidating journalists, avoiding White House reporters, staging events for television—now common presidential practices—were all originally Nixonian tactics.

   Nixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On - The Atlantic

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   Why did President Nixon call reporters 'the media'?

   • Nixon was the first president to regularly refer to reporters as “the media,” a more ominous sounding term than “the press.” Like George W. Bush, he and his aides argued that the media were an unrepresentative, irresponsible interest group that patriotic Americans needed to defend themselves against.

   Nixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On - The Atlantic

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   How did President Nixon interview reporters?

   • Nixon first used this tactic, favoring interviews with reporters from small media markets who were more likely to be dazzled by the chance to interview a president and tended to ask easier questions than the Washington press corps.

   Nixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On - The Atlantic

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   What happened to Richard Nixon?

   • Though Nixon survived, the White House staff undermined the vice president with the press, as presidential aides are wont to do, and found a receptive audience. “There was something about” Nixon “that put us off,” Earl Mazo, a Trib reporter, told Halberstam. “Part of it was ideology. Most reporters were Democrats.

   When Nixon Met the Press - POLITICO Magazine

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   Why did Nixon give the press a kind of hostility?

   • “Nixon accorded the press the sort of hostility which hateful men reserve for their most threatening enemies,” wrote George V. Higgins in November 1974, three months after Nixon resigned from office. “He believed that newsmen fabricated the stuff that made voters and other politicians dislike and oppose him.”

   The Other Time a President Went to War with the Media

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   Why did Nixon wiretap the Associated Press?

   • Nixon’s anger against the media led his administration to wiretap reporters’ phones and order the Internal Revenue Service to harass journalists he disliked. When the Obama Justice Department investigated leaks, it secretly seized records of more than 20 Associated Press phone lines.

   Nixon Is Gone, but His Media Strategy Lives On - The Atlantic

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9. news.stanford.edu › stories › 2018Historical parallels between the press and the president

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   Nov 13, 2018 · When Nixon had a prime-time press conference in March 1969, all three major networks carried it live and 59 percent of all television households tuned in. Through the 1970s, presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter could secure a 9 p.m. slot for their presidential addresses or press conferences.