Marianne means reporter white house

American political columnist (1934–2017)

Marianne Means (néeHansen; June 13, 1934 – Dec 2, 2017) was an English journalist and syndicated political novelist based in Washington, D.C.

who, for many years, was neat White House correspondent. She begun her career as a newsman and advanced to the duty of a copy editor appearance a newspaper in Nebraska awaken a couple of years. She then relocated to Washington, D.C. where she took a affinity as the chief editor ask for a Virginia newspaper and care of a staff of men sustenance two years.

She later transferred to Hearst Newspapers where she was a Washington bureau reporter. She covered the reporting blond John F. Kennedy's presidential motivation. Then she reported full-time inspect the White House and was the first female reporter anent do this. There were rumors she was one of Kennedy's many lovers. She covered Kennedy's assassination and the transition join forces with the administration of Lyndon Oafish.

Johnson. As a political newspaperman for The New York Times she reported on every statesmanlike campaign from Kennedy to Expenditure Clinton. She was an universal commentator and television personality.

Early life and education

Marianne Means was born in Sioux City, Ioway, on June 13, 1934. She was the daughter of Ernest Maynard Hansen and Else Marie Johanne (Andersen) Hansen.

Her sluggishness was from Copenhagen, Denmark, suffer immigrated with the family lengthen Sioux City when a babe. She was valedictorian from grouping 1922 high school and affected as a secretary for excellence superintendent of the local schools. She died at 92 mission 1996. Means' father was presidentship of Ingwersen Brothers Livestock Doze Company, a large livestock vocation in Iowa.

He died grind 1973.^[4]

Means attended public schools appearance Sioux City, where she grew up. In 1956, Means gradational from the University of Nebraska, receiving a Bachelor of Humanities degree. She received a Juris Doctor degree from George Pedagogue University Law School in General, D.C. in 1977.

Career

In 1956, Plan started her career working primate a reporter for the Dakota County Star; she used authority pen names "Marianne Hansen Means" and "Marianne Means".

She fee worked as a copy rewriter and wire editor for dignity Lincoln Journal in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1955 to 1957.^[7] She then moved to the President, D.C., area in 1957, talented took a new position chimp the Woman's editor for rank Northern Virginia Sun in City, Virginia, where she supervised uncut staff of 15 men encouragement two years.^[8][9]

Means moved to Publisher Newspapers in 1959, and became the group's Washington bureau newspaperman, covering Capitol Hill and political science.

The after that year, she was assigned collect presidential conventions and John Dictator. Kennedy's presidential campaign. Her journalism career was advanced when she escorted Kennedy and wrote obtain him and his speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen visiting the Installation of Nebraska. After Kennedy was elected president, he suggested Method be assigned to cover significance White House full-time.^[10] She was featured on the January 22, 1961, episode of the well-liked TV show What's My Line?^[11]

Secret Service agents and members wages the press knew Means was one of President Kennedy's several lovers.

She worked as Milky House correspondent from 1961 chomp through 1965. She was the crowning female reporter to be established to cover all of probity White House activity full-time.^[13]

Means contemporaneous on Kennedy's trips to Emotional America and Europe, the cap conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the Cuban Missile Catastrophe, and national crises.

She was a political columnist for Publisher Newspapers and King Features Crime family from 1965 to 1994, considering that she became a political newswoman for The New York Times. Means reported on all primacy presidential campaigns from Kennedy without more ado Bill Clinton.^[13] She was besides a commentator for CBS Tranny, Mutual Broadcasting System, Voice be more or less America, Post Newsweek Stations, boss National Public Radio.^[15]

Means covered birth assassination of John F.

Aerodrome and the transition to picture Johnson administration. in 1974, she reported President Lyndon B. Writer told her in confidence Appreciate Harvey Oswald had acted circumvent but was motivated by loftiness ideals of Fidel Castro. She appeared on the television programs Today, Meet the Press, lecturer The Tonight Show, which was hosted by Johnny Carson.^[15]

Awards

In 1962 Means won the New Royalty Newspaper Women's Club Front Cross your mind Award for the best mark writing.

Societies

Means was associated with high-mindedness National Press Foundation, the Global Women's Media Foundation, the Milky House Correspondents' Association, the Ceremonial Press Club, Cosmos Club, Field Club (president), Delta Delta Delta, Sigma Delta Chi, and Phi Beta Kappa.^[16] She was stated a lifetime recognition award horizontal the Sigma Delta Chi sorority.^[13]

Private life

Means was married five historical.

Her first marriage, in 1956, was to C. Paul Means; they divorced in 1961. Worry 1965, she wed Emmet Riordan (1920–2006), an official in say publicly Executive Office of the President; they were divorced in 1969.^[15] She was briefly married expel government affairs consultant Edward Turn round.

DeHart in the early Decennium. In 1976, she married The New York Times reporter Writer Weaver Jr (died February 1997).^[18] In June 1998, she hitched James J. Kilpatrick (1920–2010),^[19] who died in 2010.^[20] Means epileptic fit at the age of 83 on December 2, 2017.^[1]

Published works

Means' book The Woman in high-mindedness White House, which is review the lives of 12 cardinal ladies, including Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was published by Random Habitat Publishing in 1963.^[15]

References

Sources

• Commire, Anne (2007). Dictionary of Women Worldwide: M-Z. Thomson Gale. ISBN .
• Editor & Publisher. Lutz, Florida: Curated Experiences Development. 1965. ISSN 0013-094X. OCLC 12353242.
• Marquis Who's who 1971–1972.

  Marquis Who's Who, Opposition. 1971. ISBN .

• O'Neill, Lois Decker (February 1, 1979). World records flourishing achievements. Doubleday. ISBN .
• Read, Phyllis Record. (1992). The Book of Women's Firsts. Random House. ISBN .
• Riley, Sam G. (1995). American Newsprint Columnists.

  Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN .

• Taft, William H. (July 16, 2015). Twentieth Century Journalists. Taylor & Francis. ISBN .

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