Towson university is in maryland. This class is just under two hours. Are going to talk today on our subject of White House Communications operations, which is the name of our course. Today we are going to look at a question of when reporters came to the white house and how they did. And it makes a difference, whether it was simply reporters came to the white house because an individual president was interested in bringing the men them in, or whether it was institutional forces bringing them there. At the same time we will be discussing this, we will be looking at a research question. Ago, i had read about a reporter who was generally thought of as the beingwhite house reporter brought into the white house by Theodore Roosevelt. He was standing in the rain. Roosevelt brought him into the white house and said, poor guy, standing out there. Lets bring the reporters in and give them a room. The thing that bothered me about that story was, i just did not believe that was the way reporters