The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
Roger Mudd
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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
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In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
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