THE SECRET WORLD OF LBJ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120096-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: January 1, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

Here's the deal on the all-important, mostly
anonymous men the President relies on above any
others in times of crisis and calm. A veteran
Washington correspondent pierces the White House
inner circle in this revealing new book
BY CHARLES ROBERTS
TRUE MAGAZINE
Ab3b Approv, Fpf Re e. 2000/08/26 CIA-RDP75-00001 R000l
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There is a large logbook which records that, on any over a decade. It was my privilege to work wit V t-
iven day in any given year, hundreds of persons have during my more than three years as press secretary to
ppointments in the White House in Washington, D.C. two Presidents. He is one of the most penetrating re-
Yet only a fraction of these people see the man who porters I have known. He was with President Kennedy
ccupies that house, the President of the United States. day and night during his thousand days in office and
The rest see men and women who operate in modest, in Dallas with him when he was assassinated. He rode
fiices in the west and east wings,of that famous struc- back to Washington with the new President-one of
ure-many of them virtually unknown to the Ameri- only two newsmen present on the Presidential plane
an people. during this tragic trip.
It was John F. Kennedy who said he wanted to be I am confident that this book will illuminate the
president because he felt that would put him at the operations of the Presidential staff-a relatively new
`center of power." institution which has vital significance for the Ameri-
The Presidency is indeed the "center of power." can people.
Everything that stems from the office is molded in the
'mage and desire of the President..
-Pierre Salinger
But collectively, outside the President; the "center ? At the White House it started out like most 'over-
of power" is his staff. seas crises--with the sudden 'crump-crump of a tele-
Few men-are more qualified to write a study o f the . type machine' under the harsh. fluorescent lights in the
Presidential staff than. Charles Roberts of Newsweek.' bas6ment Situation Room. The message;: relayed from
Chuck Roberts has bden covering 'Preside'nts for" !the Pentagon' to the Whine Houso in- un oded English,'
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