Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.
Hellen Thomas has covered every president since JFK. She lays into Robert Gibbs, current White House Press Secretary, saying that the Obama administration is controlling the press like no other administation before.
Major props to CBS’ Chip Reid for raising the first question.
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