White House correspondents and photographers during the Wilson Administration (Library of Congress)Maybe reporters were nicer back then than they are now. But it’s hard to imagine a headline today like the one that ran in The Washington Post after the very first White House news conference in 1913: “Wilson, In Friendly Chat, Says He Likes Reporters.”And they liked him too. [Is the White House ‘a dump’? Roosevelt was the first president to set aside working space in the White House for their use. “The attitude of the White House toward the press has given general satisfaction to Washington newspaper correspondents,” The Post reported.

Source: Washington Post August 15, 2017 22:01 UTC