From Grover Cleveland to Gerald Ford...The President Speaks Off-the-Record; Historic evenings with America's leaders, the press, and other men of power, at Washington's exclusive Gridiron Club
Princeton, NJ: Dow Jones Books, 1976. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 870, [6] pages. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Source notes. Bibliography. The Gridiron Club: Membership List. Index. Inside front and back covers are stained. Mr. Brayman and graduated from Cornell University. Harold Brayman (1900-1988), former director of the Public Relations Department of Du Pont Company, retired from that position March 31, 1965. Brayman went to Du Pont in 1942 after a distinguished newspaper career of twenty years, fourteen of them spent as Washington correspondent for leading New York and other American dailies. He had headed that activity of the company for 21 years, establishing a concept of public relations which was widely emulated throughout the United States. As a specialist in reporting and analyzing political events, Brayman attended all national political conventions from 1928 through 1940. He crisscrossed the nation as a correspondent on the presidential campaign trains of Alfred E. Smith in 1928, President Roosevelt in 1932, Alfred M. Landon in 1936, and Wendell L. Wilkie in 1940. He worked as a syndicated columnist and a Washington correspondent for several newspapers. While a correspondent in Washington, Brayman was president of the National Press Club in 1938 and president of the Gridiron Club in 1941, one of the very few Washington correspondents to have been elected president of both of these organizations . He wrote four books, ''Corporation Management in a World of Politics,'' ''Developing a Philosophy for Business Action,'' ''A History of the Lincoln Club of Delaware'' and ''The President Speaks Off the Record.''. Chapter IV (pp. 47-70) covers Theodore Roosevelt, and contains excerpts of skits, speeches, and songs, including an account of the January 1906 Gridiron Club dinner at which President Roosevelt delivered his famous "muckraking" speech. This is a history of the Gridiron Club, an exclusive organization of Washington reporters. For nearly a century this club has hosted dinners at which presidents, cabinet members, party brass, and assorted political fauna have taken turns roasting each other. Harold Brayman is a former Gridiron Club president and is the only writer up to that time who had ever received permission to use the club's private records. The Gridiron Club and Foundation – founded in 1885 as The Gridiron Club of Washington, D.C. – is the oldest and one of the most prestigious journalistic organizations in Washington, D.C. Membership is by invitation only and has traditionally been offered almost exclusively to Washington newspaper bureau chiefs. Through 2018, every U.S. President since 1885 except Grover Cleveland has spoken at the dinner. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: U.S. Presidents, Gridiron Club, Theodore Roosevelt, Politics & Government, Satire, John F. Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard M. Nixon, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
ISBN: 0871285193
[Book #52316]
Price: $65.00