Seated in his White House rocking chair, John F. Kennedy faced a delegation of top U.S. newsmen. The eight visitors* were not exactly hostile, but they were not exactly friendly either. Just two weeks before, in an ill-conceived speech, the President had charged them with a sin and told them how to correct it. In its anxiety to report everything, Kennedy had said, the press sometimes spilled national secrets; perhaps U.S. newspapers need some form of self-censorship to suppress news endangering the national interest. Unimpressed, the editors and publishers had trooped to Washington to try to find out exactly what the...
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