THE SECRET WORLD OF LBJ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400230010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 1, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

TRUE MAGAZINE
Approvac~~~Re~l~se 2000/04/1""3b IA-RDP75-001498000,4000010-s
.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
I ,'ashington correspondent pierces the White House
inner circle in this revealing new book
BY CHARLES ROBERTS
CPYRGHT
? There is a large logbook which records that, on any over a decade. It was my privilege to work with hint
given day in any given year, hundreds of persons have during my more than three years as press secretary to
appointments 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
occupies 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
offices in the west and east wings of that famous struc- back to Washington with the new President-one of
Lure-many of them virtually unknown to the Ameri- only two newsmen present on the Presidential plane
can people. during this tragic trip.
It was John F. Kennedy who said he wanted to be I ant confident that this book will illuminate the
President because he felt that would put hint 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 -Pierre Salinger
image and desire of the President..
. But collectively, outside the President;'the "center ? At'the White House it started out like most 'over-
.
? Few men are more qualified to write a study of the type machine. under the harsh- fluorescent lights in the
Presidential staff than. Charles Roberts 'o f Newsweek-.- ' basement Situation Room. The message, relayed. 1rom ,
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Chuck Roberts has been' covering 'Preside'nts for` ' the Penta.goit to- the White' House ins uneodeel English.'.