Among those present: A reporters view of twenty-five years in Washington
Among those present: A reporters view of twenty-five years in Washington
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Doesn t everyone who watched a convention,
a space shot or the evening news in the sixties
remember that pretty, effervescent girl who
seemed to be everywhere at once, and toward
whose microphone Presidents, senators and
Cabinet officers seemed to make a beeline?
Among Those Present is Nancy Dickerson s
story of those times when she was the first female
national-network news correspondent, of the
years of competition and hard work in a man s
world that preceded her prominence, and of her
marriage, childbearing and career as a success-
ful lecturer that followed.
In 1951 Nancy Hanschman, a wide-eyed
idealistic, convent-educated girl from Ameri-
ca s Heartland (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, "where
nothing ever happened") arrived in Washington
to change the world. By persistent effort and
charm she was hired as a staff member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and re-
ceived her initiation with Senator McCarthy s
attack on it. The fear and cowardice of those
years were a rude shock, and she grew up
quickly. But because she was a woman, the job
had its limitations, and within a couple of years
she joined CBS. There, with the rise of televi-
sion, she came to prominence as that enchanting
reporter who always seemed to be in the right
spot at the right time, more than holding her
own with her male competitors because she
asked tough questions and stood out in a crowd.
In fact, she scored so many beats that it was
perhaps understandable that some male corre-
spondents made life tougher for her; the barriers
that were thrown in her way ranged from petty
inconveniences to whispers that her scoops had
more to do with her sex than with pounding
the pavements. ~