Press copy of The President and the Press, 27 April 1961

RELEASE AT 7:00 P. M. APRIL 27, 1961 APRIL 27, 1961 Office of the White House Press Secretary sagoza add enimexe 03 babasin? (AS ACTUALLY DELIVERED) bas THE WHITE HOUSE ssob ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE DINNER OF THE BUREAU OF ADVERTISING, AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, WALDORF-ASTORLA HOTEL, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, APRIL 27, 1961 10 tove appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. naed You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me. of how particularly heavily the burdens cf present day events bear upon your profession. as You may remember that in 1851 The New York Herald Tribune, under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, included as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marxe asqori 2000 syad We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke. and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and Managing Editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating." 3,0 But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx locked around for other means of livelihood, and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with The Tribune and devoting his taients full time to the cause that would bas bequeath to the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war. If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different and I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricke appeal for a small increase in the ga expense account lo have;selected as the title of my remarks tonight The President and the Press. Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded The President But those are not my sentiments tonight. of It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another -ino country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had falready made it clear that was notiresponsible for this Administration wot on Nevertheless, my purposé here tonight is not to deliver the usual assault on the o-called one-party press. On the contrary, recent word[ months I have rarely heard any complaints about political bias in the press except from a few Republicans, Nor is it my purpose tonight to discuss or defend the televising of Presidential press conferences. Ithink it is highly beneficial to have some 20, 000, Americans regularly sit in on these aver conferences to observe, if I may say so, the incisive, theintelligenb-asd-the courteous qualities displayed by your Washingtonicorrespondents.to bas 10 nI to begeliving nove dsrit blomore add " rognsb "roi bses a¹oildag 03 end (OVER)