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    "ocrText": "Tha\n16\nEXECUTIVE\nFebruary 22, 1967\nPE2\nWednesday - 12 noon\nMR. PRESIDENT:\nA\nPR8-1/BX\nYou have a date at 6:00 p.m. with Peter Benchley who has been employed,\neffective March 1, as a research-writer. Mr. Benchley is from the very\ndistinguished writing family of Robert Benchley who is his grandfather and\nNathaniel Benchley who is his father. He will be 27-years old in May.\nHis last job was Editor of the Radio and Television Department of Newsweek.\nHe felt that he was stymied there and wanted advancement within the company\nwhich he could not get because the jobs of the key executive editors over\nhim were all filled. Since I had known him slightly, as President of NBC,\nhe approached me to help him get a job in the government and said he was\ninterested in the research-writer field. The radio and television section\nof Newsweek was always well-written, and my chat with Kay Grahamand\nLester Bernstein, one of the editors of Newsweek, was favorable. We did\nnot \"take\" him away from Newsweek. He quit voluntarily and Kay recom-\nmended him to Mac Bundy for a job but he was more interested in the govern-\nment than in a foundation, although I don't know whether Mac finally offered\nhim a job.\nHe is somewhat sky, diffident, and young but I believe he could be developed\nwell. Previous to working for Newsweek, he worked for the Washington\nPost as a special assignment reporter.\nHe was educated at Phillips Exeter and Harvard 1961. He has written\narticles for Holiday, The New Yorker, Diplomat, Vogue, TV Guide and\ntwo books - \"Jonathan Visits the White House'and \"Time and a Ticket.\"\nHe speaks and reads French well and Italian fair. For one year he\ntraveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Far East for\neducational purposes.\nBoth John Macy and I interviewed him and were impressed by him. John\nMacy has had him investigated and I understand he is cleared. He served\nfor a period in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.\nBenhhley is coming in at 5:00 p.m. to chat before his 6:00 appointment\nwith you.\nRobert E. Kintner\nREK:ny\nRECEIVED\nFEB\n2.\nCENT"
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