All administrations secretive, manipulative of press

March 17, 2013 8:38 AM

Bob Schieffer looks at the 100th anniversary of presidential press conferences and sums up his view of the White House's relationship with the press: "People always ask me which of all the administrations I have covered are the most secretive and manipulative. I always answer whichever happens to be in office at the time.

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