Washington Evening Star reporter William Wallace Price co-founded the White House Correspondents’ Association, whose 2023 dinner President Biden will address Saturday in D.C.
But the 300-pound Price posted himself right outside the White House gate, day after day, rain or shine. And he ambushed those going through it.
“When politicians calling on President Cleveland emerged, ‘Fatty’ Price buttonholed them and milked them of what news they were willing to give down,” New York Times reporter Delbert Clark wrote in his 1941 book “Washington Dateline.” Price, considered the country’s first full-time White House reporter, went on to co-found the White House Correspondents’ Association, whose 2023 dinner President Biden will address Saturday. His methods helped transform the relationship between presidents and the press, an evolution Price captured in his own writings.Price, who launched a column called “At The White House” in 1897, got so many scoops staking out the gates that other newsmen soon began joining him.
McKinley loved “going among the people” on railroad trips, Price later wrote. “One car and sometimes two cars would be set aside for the press.”Once, the president was invited to tour the “Biltmore” estate of George Vanderbilt, but not with reporters. “Then I will not accept the invitation,” McKinley responded. He went, with the newsmen.
White House officials generally talked to all reporters anonymously, a reality Price understood. “It is the business of the reporter to know how to handle the information given him so as to get the news into his paper and at the same time conceal the source of the material,” he wrote in 1914. “To blunder in handling information of this kind, making trouble for his informant and others, would be unpardonable.
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