CORRESPONDENT INTERVIEWED- CBS White House correspondent Rober1 Pierpoint, (left) gives his impressions of past and present presidential ad– ministrations to Ron Fry, announcer for the Harding campus radio station, KH– CA. Pierpoint addressed the audience of approximately 750 in the Harding, College main auditorium. The address was part of the American Studies Lectures which schedules monthly speakers of national prominence. (Photo by Mike James - Harding PR) ~ Correspondent Visits Campus Robert Pierpoint, White House correspondent for CBS news, presented his "View from the White House Steps," as a part ofthe American Studies Program speaker series October 2. He told the Harding audience that the five presidents he has covered "have been in most respects vastly different men, each bringing his own style to the presidency; during the years that he occupies the White House each man leaving his own marks, both by what he does and does not do." Beginning with Eisenhower, Pierpoint noted experiences and episodes he had encountered with the presidents and gave his im– pressions of them as heads of state and as human beings. He pointed out the good qualities in the Nixon administration of ending the Vietnam war and "opening up the path Moscow and Peking." Revenue sharing and the Nixon-Kissinger handling of the Middle East situation were also plus-marks. In a question and answer session after the speech, Pierpoint commented on the Cuban Missile crisis during Kennedy's ad– ministration: "It was a serious crisis in terms of confrontation." In referring to the recent assassination attempts on the life of President Ford, the newscaster noted that America was in a cycle of violence, where "sick people are brought out of the woodwork and are challenged to bring attention t~ themselves." Pierpoint, a native of California, began his journalistic career as a free-lance broadcaster in Stockholm. He joined CBS in 1949 and covered the Korean War. He was a Far East bureau chief for CBS before being appointed White House correspondent, a position which he has held for more than 18 years. ' . .. , .. ~· .. • , · ~ ..
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