The Black correspondents at the White House
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Black World knew Alice Dunnigan back then, knew her very well, white people. |
| 0:08.0 | White people didn't know what was going on in the Black World. |
| 0:14.0 | Where in the 1950s, Eisenhower is president. I'm not born yet. |
| 0:21.0 | Alice Dunnigan is a White House reporter sitting in the briefing. |
| 0:27.0 | The first and only Black woman sitting in the briefing room back then. |
| 0:32.0 | So she raised the question at the news conference. |
| 0:35.0 | And Eisenhower got very mad and he had a little fit of peak. |
| 0:39.0 | He said, well, I don't think much of the question. |
| 0:41.0 | Why are you asking me that? |
| 0:42.0 | Shut down, ignored. |
| 0:44.0 | Each time, he would say, why are you asking me? |
| 0:47.0 | I know that feeling well. |
| 0:49.0 | Thank you. That's all. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Eugene Daniels, an author of political's playbook. |
| 0:54.0 | And this is Playbook D5. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, I'm Carol Booker. |
| 1:03.0 | Carol is a former journalist and attorney who rediscovered an autobiography |
| 1:08.0 | Alice wrote back in 1974 that was almost out of print. |
| 1:12.0 | There were a couple of copies offered online, but for $100 or more, |
| 1:17.0 | I was too bad to pay $100. |
| 1:19.0 | So I lived near the Library of Congress and I walked over there. |
| 1:23.0 | I was amazed. |
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