Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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"In the first news conference President Eisenhower made some reference to the fact that there was some possibility of armed conflict with Indonesia. He didn’t mean Indonesia. He meant Indo-China. And so Jim [the press secretary] clipped that out of the portion that he released… and we carried it several hours delayed afterward. And everything continued that way during Eisenhower’s presidency. It was not until John Kennedy was president that we carried [press conferences] live." - Julian Goodman, NBC Executive

Interviewees discuss the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).

Highlights

Julian Goodman on the first Presidential News Conference in 1955

05:04

Walter Cronkite on covering the 1952 Presidential election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

02:40

William Clotworthy on the 1952 political campaign and BBDO representing the Republican party - Eisenhower; on how they got Ike to wear makeup

06:44

NBC Unit Manager Bob Costello on televising President Eisenhower's speeches

04:55

Garry Simpson on covering President Eisenhower

00:51

Perry Wolff on covering the 1952 political convention for CBS and meeting President Dwight D. Eisenhower

06:21

Who talked about this topic

William Clotworthy

William Clotworthy on the 1952 political campaign and BBDO representing the Republican party - Eisenhower; on how they got Ike to wear makeup

06:44

John Conte

John Conte on his local station, KMIR, becoming an NBC affiliate, and arranging a meeting between Tom and David Sarnoff with President Dwight David Eisenhower

03:59

Robert E. Costello

NBC Unit Manager Bob Costello on televising President Eisenhower's speeches

04:55

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite on covering the 1952 Presidential election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

02:40

Walter Cronkite on an awkward moment during the first Telestar sattelite transmission while interviewing Dwight Eisenhower and Marshall Montgomery

03:01

Bob Doyle

Bob Doyle on directing coverage of the 1952 presidential conventions

05:01

Julian Goodman

Julian Goodman on Walter Cronkite dominating coverage of the 1952 Presidential Convention; on the primitive state of TV at the time

04:44

Julian Goodman on the first Presidential News Conference in 1955 and NBC News covering Eisenhower

05:04

Sig Mickelson

Sig Mickelson on CBS News covering the 1952 Presidential Election

07:48

Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the 1952 political conventions

04:20

Sig Mickelson on Walter Cronkite anchoring CBS News' coverage of the conventions and on inventing the term "anchorman"

02:25

Sig Mickelson on the innovations and impact of CBS News' coverage of the 1952 political conventions

07:18

Sig Mickelson on the concept of "gavel-to-gavel coverage" first introduced by CBS News for the 1952 political conventions

01:56

Sig Mickelson on Don Hewitt's role during CBS News' coverage of the 1952 political conventions

02:30

Sig Mickelson on Bill Leonard's contribution to CBS News' coverage of the 1952 political conventions and on covering the speeches

04:04

Sig Mickelson on candid moments from the 1952 political conventions and on how CBS' coverage differed from NBC or ABC

03:19

Sig Mickelson on CBS News Radio's coverage of the 1952 political conventions

02:35

Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of election night in 1952 and on the use of the Univac computer

07:11

Sig Mickelson on CBS News' relationship with Dwight D. Eisenhower and press secretary James Hagerty

03:01

Sig Mickelson on a dust up between CBS News and the Eisenhower White House over a scheduled interview with then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

09:58

Thomas W. Moore

Thomas W. Moore on ABC covering the 1952 conventions, and on how presidents starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower took to television

07:55

Robert Mott

Robert Mott on working on I Like Ike, a tribute to President Dwight D. Eisenhower

04:14

Garry Simpson

Garry Simpson on covering President Eisenhower

00:51

Ira Skutch

Ira Skutch on directing commercials during the 1952 political conventions

03:19

Perry Wolff

Perry Wolff on covering the 1952 political convention for CBS and meeting President Dwight D. Eisenhower

06:21

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