Notwithstanding JFK’s fixation on television (“We couldn’t survive without TV,” he told Sorensen),78 he kept a sharp eye on print publications, believing their impact was longer lasting than fleeting impressions on the tube. “JFK was a compulsive reader—and pilferer—of newspapers and magazines,” Salinger testified. “When he came into my office and saw one he hadn’t read on my desk, he would invariably walk out with it. No one on the staff was safe from his shoplifting.”
