The US National Archives, now a un-federalized organization, published a journal article about the history of "White House Press Secretary". In the article, it asserts, George B. Cortelyou, former NYC steno teacher, Chairman of the Republican Party, who held three Cabinet posts under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (remember him? They made him VP so we wouldn't have to hear from him its alleged) was first to "invite" the press into the White House, most except a few perhaps before relegated to outside the fence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He updated the press on the condition of McKinley who, shot by an anarchist in Buffalo, NY, lived on for 8 days, and had been expected to recover.
The article, for whatever reasons, left out the then recent White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers, who left that position to get married, after three years, the first and only woman to now to hold it. The others, back to George B. Cortelyou (as Secretary of the Treasury said to avert an economic depression, though bread went from a nickel to a dime, and later Postmaster General under President Theodore Roosevelt) were included in the article.
The history of the "corps" has been to dutifully report what they are told. I find that since "only Congress will have the power to declare war" in the US Constitution, therein lies the plot to bring us to war and the press just part of the solution.
Posted by georgejmyers at 09:08 AM : Apr 28, 2007
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