Newsweek Editor Gushes Over McCain

Geoffrey | May 11, 2018
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“You could argue that no candidate since Bobby Kennedy in 1968, a long time ago, has so opened himself up to the press corps and so won over the press corps. The Bobby Kennedy press corps, and Jack [Germond] was on the plane, was pretty enthusiastic about Bobby Kennedy by the end of it. The difference of course was that Bobby Kennedy was pretty much always off the record on the airplane. You didn’t report what was going on. Whereas McCain, and this is an act of phenomenal political courage, will spend two, three, four hours on the record with reporters.”
— Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas, February 5, 2000 Inside Washington.

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