In 1872 Grant's opponent for the president was New-York Tribune editor Horace Greeley In 1889 Whitelaw Reid went from editor of the New-York Tribune to minister to France, and then the 1892 GOP VP nominee In 1936 Chicago Daily News publisher Frank Knox was the GOP VP nominee
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In 1940 FDR brought him on board as Secretary of the Navy The overlap between journalism and politics is not new. It is the pretense that is new, for many reasons, some of which should be obvious by now.
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