Six Presidents, Too Many Wars The 40-Year Memoirs Of A Washington Correspondent

Bill Lawrence went to Washington, was a rough-and-tumble United Press reporter during Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term, and subsequently became the White House correspondent for the New York Times, covering the Presidential administrations of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. In 1961 he moved to ABC, where he quickly established himself as a nightly fixture on the network news and turned his critical eye upon the Johnson and Nixon administrations. FDR is here in all his glory. So is JFK, who thoroughly enjoyed leaking a news story and whose sharp and cutting humor has never been so well described. And Lyndon Johnson, whom Lawrence accurately predicted would not run for re-election. This book chronicles World War II, the mission to Moscow, the Korean War, and other events of international and national importance that the author has reported.