Herbert Hoover: 1929-1933
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President Herbert Hoover suffered, in part, from poor relations with the press; he was unable to use the press to help build public confidence in his presidency. In 1981, the National Commission on Presidential Press Conferences, co-chaired by A. Linwood Holton, Jr., and Ray Scherer, suggested reforms to the modern presidential press conference. |
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The National Commission on Presidential Press Conferences (1981) |
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Co-Chairs: A. Linwood Holton, Jr., Governor of Virginia, 1970-1974 Ray Scherer, Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News Commissioners: Douglass Cater, Special Assistant to the President, 1964-1968 Robert Pierpoint, International Correspondent, CBS News; White House Correspondent, CBS News Julius Duscha, Head of the Washington Journalism Center, 1968-1990, Editorial Writer, Reporter, National correspondent, The Washington Post, 1958-1966 James Rowe Carroll Kilpatrick, Assistant press secretary at the State Department; White House Correspondent, The Washington Post Felicia Warburg Rogan Commission Director: Kenneth W. Thompson, Director of the Miller Center, 1978-1998 |
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