Pierre Salinger

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Pierre Salinger (1970)

Pierre Emil George Salinger (born June 14, 1925 in San Francisco , California , † October 16, 2004 in Cavaillon , France ) was an American journalist . From 1961 to 1964 he was press secretary for US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson . He then served in the United States Senate for nearly five months (August 4 to December 31, 1964) before being voted out of office.

Live and act

Salinger was born the son of an American and a French woman. From 1942 to 1943 he worked as an editor for the San Francisco Chronicle . During the Second World War he served as a lieutenant in the US Navy. He studied at the University of San Francisco from 1946 to 1947 , then went back to the Chronicle and in 1955 to Collier's Magazine . In 1957 Salinger became an employee of the future US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who was doing research on organized crime for the US Senate.

Pierre Salinger (l.) With John F. Kennedy (1961)

Pierre Salinger moved in 1959 as press spokesman for the then US Senator John F. Kennedy and was soon one of his closest advisors. He accompanied him through the successful 1960 presidential election , drafted the New Frontier's government program for him and became press spokesman for the White House in Washington in 1961 . He invented the live press conferences of the US president, which are still popular today, and made Kennedy the first television president of the USA. After Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, he remained the press secretary under President Lyndon B. Johnson until March 1964.

In 1964 Salinger moved up as a Democrat for the late California US Senator Clair Engle in Congress . According to the constitution, he was appointed for this by the California Governor Pat Brown . In the general election that year, however, he lost the mandate to Republican George Murphy . He later moved to France - he had learned the language from his mother - and initially worked for the French news magazine L'Express . In 1977 he became office manager of the US television station ABC in Paris , later head of ABC foreign correspondents based in London .

Salinger was Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor .

family

Salinger (r.) As John F. Kennedy's press spokesman shortly before he took office; together with his predecessor as government spokesman , James Hagerty (1960)

Salinger was married to Nicole Poppy Salinger for the fourth time and had two sons, Stephen and Gregory. His personal preference was for large Cuban cigars and French wines. Most recently he lived in Le Thor near the southern French city of Avignon ; he had left his retirement home in New York City because he refused to live in the United States while George W. Bush was President. Salinger died of a heart attack a week after he was given a pacemaker in the hospital.

Fonts

  • Pierre Salinger: JF Kennedy . Econ Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-612-26002-2
  • Pierre Salinger: On behalf of my government. A political novel . von Schröder, Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-547-77906-5
  • Pierre Salinger, Eric Laurent: War in the Gulf: The Secret Dossier . Hanser-Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-446-16356-5
  • Pierre Salinger: PS A memoir . St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 1995, ISBN 0-312-13578-5

literature

  • Joseph P. Berry: John F. Kennedy and the media: The first television President . University Press of America, Lanham, Md. 1987, ISBN 0-8191-6552-2

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personal data
SURNAME Salinger, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salinger, Pierre Emil George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, White House press secretary
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2004
Place of death Cavaillon , France