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Theodore Joslin

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During his tenure as presidential press secretary, Joslin struggled to improve Hoover's public image. Hoover's distaste for the press and personal publicity, the collapse of the national economy in the
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sent him to its Washington, D.C. bureau, and he became chief correspondent in 1924. From 1916 to 1931 he was also on the staff of
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This biography of a person who has held a non-elected position in the federal government of the United States is a
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and contributed to other magazines. He married Rowena A. Hawes in 1913, and had two sons, Richard and Robert.
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Bylines in Despair: Herbert Hoover, the Great Depression, and the U.S. News Media
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After Hoover left office, Joslin published an expurgated version of the diary as
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from 1936-1939. In 1939, he became director of public relations for the
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Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History
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tenure, he produced Washington reports for the statistician
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White House Press Secretary
Herbert Hoover
George E. Akerson
Stephen Early
White House Appointments Secretary
Herbert Hoover
George E. Akerson
Marvin H. McIntyre
Leominster
Massachusetts
U.S.
Wilmington
Delaware
U.S.
Republican
White House Press Secretary
President
Herbert Hoover
Leominster
Massachusetts
Associated Press
Boston Evening Transcript
press secretary
Herbert Hoover
George Akerson
press corps
White House
Roger W. Babson
The News-Journal

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