On stage, Marlin Fitzwater, one of the longestserving press secretaries in history and one of three who served under two president s. Marlin got his start in journalism like some of you, as an eighth grade Sports Reporter in kansas. He went on a study journalism at kansas state. After graduation, more than went to washington dc with dreams of landing a job at the washington post. A number oftook government positions including jobs in the department of transportation, the environment of protection agency, and the department of the treasury. In 1981, the white house beckoned and marlin was named a special assistant to president reagan and Deputy Press Secretary for domestic affairs. As the, he was tapped press secretary for george bush in two years later, he was named president ial spokesman bears subsequently, martin remained in the west wing as press secretary to president george h. W. Bush, a position he held until bill clinton moved into the oval office in 1993. Lasted than a decade
Fore was a tremendous need training americans. The bombing of pearl harbor, pueblo had been looked at and identified as a potential location for a training facility. 1941 thate in surveying began here in pueblo and Pueblo County for the pueblo army ordinance, which is just located to the east of the airbase. Initially the airplanes that we would see coming in and out of were transport type aircraft. We hadn personnel fortresses started training here in pueblo. We would seabees flying fortresses out over the city, then pretty soon we heard about where we hadnt bombing ranges set up. The fights that went on in pueblo were not only the flights that went out of pueblo, there were new crews arriving to learn how to fly the b17. Lights would originate in pueblo. Many of the flights would go down to the gulf of mexico for practice bombing missions. Other flights, i heard airmen talking about practice bombing from the golden gate bridge. They would fly clear to california and rectus bomb runs.
Journalists on the presidency and the press. It is hosted by the Marlon Fitzwater center for communications at Franklin Pierce university in new hampshire. It is about 50 minutes. Were going to look at the presidency through the lens of david valdez, who is one of only nine president ial photographers in u. S. History. When he was not much older than you, the draft sidelined his plans for college. While in the air force, he trained as a photographer, and he found himself taking photos of fourstar generals by the age of 19. After his honorable discharge, he took those skills to the university of maryland at college park, where he completed his degree in journalism while also working at the u. S. Departments of agriculture and housing and human development. He later left and worked at the u. S. Chamber of commerce. In 1983, Vice President george h. W. Bush tapped him as his personal photographer, and later appointed him director of the White House Photo offices and personal photographer
School Student Media program. No one is more qualified to speak on the topic then the men man on stage, Marlin Fitzwater, one of the longestserving press secretaries in history and one of three who served under two president s. Marlin got his start in journalism like some of you, as an eighth grade Sports Reporter in abilene, kansas. He went on a study journalism at kansas state. After graduation, marlin went to washington dc with dreams of landing a job at the washington post. Instead, he took a number of government positions including jobs in the department of transportation, the environment of protection agency, and the department of the treasury. In 1981, the white house beckoned and marlin was named a special assistant to president reagan and Deputy Press Secretary for domestic affairs. In 1985, he was tapped as the press secretary for george bush and two years later, he was named president ial spokesman. Subsequently, martin remained in the west wing as press secretary to preside
Presidency through the lens of david valdez, who is one of only nine president ial photographers in u. S. History. When he was not much older than you, the draft sidelined his plans for college. While in the air force, he trained as a photographer, and he found himself taking photos of fourstar generals by the age of 19. After his honorable discharge, he took those skills to the university of maryland at college park, where he completed his degree in journalism while also working at the u. S. Departments of agriculture and housing and human development. He later left and worked at the u. S. Chamber of commerce. In 1983, Vice President george h. W. Bush tapped him as his personal photographer, and later appointed him director of the White House Photo offices and personal photographer to the president. In his decade at the white house, he shot 65,000 rolls of film in 75 countries and in all 50 states. After president bush left the white house, valdez joined walt disney attractions, but r