Presidents vs Press, then and now by Kurtis Lee

Source: Los Angeles Times
Date: Sunday, February 19, 2017
Article: Presidents vs Press, then and now
Writer: Kurtis Lee
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1. Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were two U.S. Presidents who had problems with the press.
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4. Timothy Naftali is a professor of history at New York University and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
5. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
6. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in as much as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
7. U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew faced criminal charges, was fined $10,000 for tax evasion, and received three years of probation.
8. Senior Advisor Stephen K. Bannon has labeled the press the “opposition party.”
9. The approval rating of U.S. President Trump is 40% according to the Gallup poll.
10. Ronald Reagan said, “The press can take care of itself quite nicely, and a president should be able to take care of himself as well.”
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