His suspicion of the newspapers notwithstanding, Nixon had remained a dutiful reader of the big dailies. Each morning, he received the New York Times and Washington Post, and each night aides left the Washington Star at his bedside. But not even a workaholic like Nixon could keep up with the papers as Kennedy once had, especially once the administration went into crisis mode. So, each day at 7:00 A.M., Pat Buchanan began preparing a “daily press briefing” that summarized the most recent media and wire reports on the Nixon administration in a thick booklet.
