Poisoning The Press

by Mark Feldstein

  Rehnquist, William

  Reiner, Phillip

  Republican Convention: of 1968; of 1972, ITT’s underwriting of

  Republican National Committee

  Republican Party; conservatives in; ITT scandals and; McCarthy’s accusations and; Nixon as presidential candidate of; press and; see also specific elections

  Reston, James

  Rhee, Jhoon

  Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace

  Richardson, Elliot

  right-wing talk radio

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rogers, William

  Romania

  Rometsch, Ellen

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rosenberg, Howard

  Rosenberg, Julius

  Rosenstiel, Tom

  Rothblatt, Henry

  Rove, Karl

  Ruffin, Marshall de G.

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russell, Lou

  S

  Safer, Morley

  Safire, William

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

  Salt Lake City, Utah

  Salt Lake Tribune

  San Clemente, Calif.

  San Francisco Chronicle

  San Francisco Examiner

  satellite television

  “Saturday Night Massacre”

  Saudi Arabia

  Scaife, Richard Mellon

  scandal culture: contemporary rise of; historical origins of

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

  Scott, Hugh

  Scripps Howard News Service

  Secret Service, U.S.

  segregation

  Senate, U.S.; Armed Services Committee of; in elections of 1946; Foreign Relations Committee of; Judiciary Committee of; lobbyists investigated by; Nixon in; Watergate Committee of

  Sevareid, Eric

  Shanghai

  Sheehan, Neil

  Sheraton-Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C.

  Sidey, Hugh

  Silbert, Earl

  Silver Slipper casino

  Sinatra, Frank

  Sinclair, Upton

  Sioux nation

  Sirica, John J.

  60 Minutes

  Smathers, George

  Smith, Sandy

  Smith, William French

  Smolonsky, Marc

  Snow, Tony

  Somoza, Anastasio

  Southeast Asia

  South Korea

  South Vietnam

  Soviet Union; U.S. rivalry with

  Speakes, Larry

  Spear, Joe

  Specter, Arlen

  Spencer, Stuart

  Spock, Benjamin

  Stans, Maurice

  Starr, Kenneth

  Stars and Stripes

  State Department, U.S.

  Steffens, Lincoln

  Stennis, John

  Stewart, W. Donald

  Sturgis, Frank

  Suharto

  Sullivan, Michael

  Sullivan, William

  Supreme Court, U.S.; Nixon tapes and; Pentagon Papers case and

  Symington, Stuart

  syndicated columns, censorship and

  T

  talk radio, right-wing

  Target: USA!

  Teamsters Union

  Teapot Dome political scandal

  Texas

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, see Nguyen Van Thieu

  Thomas, Elbert

  Thomas, J. Parnell

  Thompson, Fred

  Thurmond, Strom

  Time magazine

  Today show

  Tolson, Clyde

  Tower, John

  Trans World Airlines

  Trento, Joe

  Truman, Harry S.; administration of

  Truth

  Tunney, John

  Turkey

  U

  Ulasewicz, Tony

  Union Oil Company

  United Nations

  United Press International

  United States, Soviet rivalry with

  USA Today

  V

  Van Atta, Dale

  Vesco, Robert

  Vietnam, North

  Vietnam, South

  Vietnam War

  von Hoffman, Nicholas

  W

  Wallace, George

  Wallace, Gerald

  Wall Street Journal

  Washington, D.C.; modern scandal culture in; press corps of; social circuit of

  Washington, George

  “Washington Merry-Go-Round”; Nixon’s 1958 counterattack against; Pearson’s death and Anderson’s succession at

  Washington Post; Anderson criticized by; Watergate coverage of

  Washington Press Club

  Washington Star

  Watergate apartment complex

  Watergate scandal; aftermath of; Anderson’s grand jury transcripts and; break-in and burglary in; cover-up in; special prosecutor for; trial in

  Weicker, Lowell

  Welander, Robert

  Welch, Ola Florence

  West Virginia

  White, Theodore H.

  White House, see Nixon administration

  Whitten, Les; arrest of

  Whittier, Calif.

  Whittier College

  Wicker, Tom

  Williams, Pete

  Wills, Garry

  Winchell, Walter

  Woods, Rose Mary

  Woodward, Bob

  World War I

  World War II

  Y

  Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad

  Yorba Linda, Calif.

  Young, David

  Young Astronauts program

  Z

  Ziegler, Ronald

  Zumwalt, Elmo

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Mark Feldstein is the Richard Eaton professor of journalism at the University of Maryland. For two decades, he worked as an investigative reporter for newspapers, magazines, and television, including as an on-air correspondent at CNN and ABC News. On assignment, Feldstein was beaten up in the U.S., censored in Egypt, and escorted out of Haiti under armed guard, earning dozens of journalism’s top honors, including the Edward R. Murrow Broadcasting Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, and two George Foster Peabody medallions. A graduate of Harvard who received his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Feldstein has also won awards for his scholarship from the American Journalism Historians Association and other academic organizations. He is widely quoted as a media analyst by leading news outlets in the United States and abroad, and has testified as an expert witness before Congress on First Amendment issues.