Interviewees discuss the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961).
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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
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
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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 an awkward moment during the first Telestar sattelite transmission while interviewing Dwight Eisenhower and Marshall Montgomery
03:01
Walter Cronkite on covering the 1952 Presidential election of Dwight D. Eisenhower
02:40
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