P.S.; A Memoir
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm xi, [3], 304, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight creasing to DJ edges. Minor staining at bottom edge of rear cover and DJ near spine. Inscribed by the author to Elaine Jones. Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He had served as the seventh White House Press Secretary for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a United States Senator in 1964 and as campaign manager for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work for ABC News, particularly for his coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Salinger worked on Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and became one of the leading figures in the campaign. After JFK became President, he hired Salinger as his press secretary. When Kennedy became the first president to allow live television broadcasts of his news conferences, Salinger was said to have managed the press corps with "wit, enthusiasm and considerable disdain for detail," which made him a "celebrity." After the August 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait, ABC sent Salinger to the Middle East, where he obtained a transcript in Arabic of a conversation between Saddam Hussein and the US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie; the latter infamously told Saddam: "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," which was interpreted by some as giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait, which he did only days later. More