Article: The Swamp Root Chronicle. (book excerpt describing a journalist's experience as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Kennedy)

Robert Manning's memoir, "The Swamp Root Chronicle," covers a half century in journalism. Manning was one of the stars who came out of United Press in the 1930@and 1940's. He covered the White House and the State Department, then took a year off to become a Nieman Fellow in 1945-46. After that be covered the newly established United Nations for UP, then became a senior editor and foreign correspondent for Time-Life. He was for nearly 15years editor of The Atlantic Monthly. These excerpt reprinted with the permission of the author, deal with his years as Assistant Secretary of State und President Kennedy. The book is published by W. W. Norton & Co.

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