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DeFrank
Continued from Page 1
Also in late September, a story
that had been critical of alleged
slowness in forming a campus po
litical forum had been disapproved
for publication in The Battalion,
DeFrank said in a Battalion article
on Oct. 7,1966.
These conflicts led to decisive
action by the A&M Publications
Board when they officially re
moved DeFrank and two of his as
sistants from their positions on the
newspaper on Sept. 30,1966.
Jim Lindsey, chairman of the
board, said in a Oct. 7, 1966 Battal
ion article he felt the action was
necessary because continued policy
disagreement could only result in
further harm to The Battalion.
DeFrank said the stated cause
for the dismissal was the unsigned
letter that appeared in "Sound
Off."
"The point is it was an innocu
ous letter," DeFrank said. "They
claimed we were irresponsible be
cause we published it without a
source. That was just an excuse
they used. They were determined
to get rid of me and my staff."
Rudder stood behind the Stu
dent Publications Board's decision
to remove DeFrank.
DeFrank said he ran into Rud
der two years later at Dulles Air
port in Washington, D.C.
"We exchanged pleasantries,"
DeFrank said. "At one point, he
said, T would have thrown you out
of school if your grades weren't so
damn good.' I'd like to think there
was a grudging respect on his be
half, but I suspect he was supreme
ly annoyed with me. But I repeat,
he was a great man and a great
president of the University."
After his dismissal from The
Battalion, DeFrank stayed at school
and worked at The Bryan Daily Ea
gle. However, other avenues soon
opened up for him.
In the spring of 1966 during his
junior year, DeFrank was sitting in
the basement of the YMCA Build
ing where The Battalion offices
where located. He was reading the
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DeFrank wrote Newsweek a let
ter to tell them they did not have a
correspondent on the A&M cam
pus. He did not receive a reply
from them.
However, six months later he re
ceived a call from the Houston Bu
reau Chief for Newsweek. They
had received his letter in New York
and wanted him to work for them.
In the spring of 1967, DeFrank
became a campus correspondent
for Newsweek. It was the begin
ning of an association that was to
continue for more than 25 years.
After graduation from A&M in
1967 with a bachelor's in journal
ism, DeFrank pursued his master's
at the University of Minnesota. He
also continued as a campus corre
spondent for Newsweek there.
DeFrank was offered a summer
internship at Newsweek's Houston
Bureau after his graduation from
the University of Minnesota. Three
weeks before DeFrank left for
Houston, Newsweek called him
with an opening in their Washing
ton Bureau. DeFrank jumped at
the offer.
In October 1968, he went into
the Army and worked for two
years at the Pentagon as an Army
Public Aftairs Officer. On the
weekends, he worked for
Newsweek. In October 1970, he
went to work for Newsweek full
time.
DeFrank began working as a
general assignments reporter and
covered Congress and the Penta
gon. He began covering the White
House in 1974 and has covered
every president since Nixon.
DeFrank has traveled all over
the world with the presidents. He
has traveled to 45 countries and all
50 states.
He considers the year he spent
covering Vice President Ford as
one of the highlights of his career.
For seven months, DeFrank
traveled on a twin engine airplane
getting to know the man who was
going to be the next president of
the United States.
"It was exhilarating and excit
ing," he said. "We all knew that he
was going to be president. We just
didnt know when."
DeFrank said Ford knew he was
going to be president sooner or lat
er, but he also knew it was going to
be devastating to the Republican
Party.
"He spent most of 1974 traveling
all over the country, trying his best
to hold the Republican Party to
gether as Watergate got worse and
worse," DeFrank said. "There was
more and more tension on Air
Force Two. Through it all, Jerry
Ford was unfailingly polite and de
cent to those of us who traveled
with him. It was a wonderful time
and insight into history in the mak
ing."
However, changes were on the
way for both Ford and DeFrank.
Newsweek's White House cor
respondent quit in June 1974. De-
Frank was sent to cover the White
House.
"I hated it," DeFrank said. "The
White House was a snake pit of
tension and mutual hostility. I
thought Nixon might survive for
another six months. I was miser
able."
DeFrank persuaded his boss to
let him go on one more trip with
Ford. So the next week, DeFraii
flew to California with Ford
stayed there to cover Nixon oi
trip.
Before Ford left, DeFrank wro)
him a note thanking liitn for fe;
so generous. The last line o
note read: "Just consider me
advance man at the White House.'
DeFrank later learned
read the note aloud to everyone (a
Air Force Two) on the way homt
DeFrank said the last lineembai-
rassed Ford because it
said 'You're going to be presideiii
and we both know it.'
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"One week later, the new
dent had a state dinner for King
Hussein of Jordan," DeFrank said
"He invited as his guests every re
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While DeFrank considers the
resignation of Nixon his greatest
story, he considers the most dra
matic and emotional story of hisca-
reer to be the return of the POWi
from Vietnam in 1973.
Of the presidents hehascov
ered, he said Clinton is the smartest
of the bunch while Reagan was the
most effective, and Nixon was the
most difficult to cover
"One of the wonderful things of
covering the White House for al
most 25 years is I have dozens of
great stories just like that," he said.
"I'm going to do an oral history for
myself bet ore 1 forget them all/
DeFrank has started working as
a collaborator on former Secretan
of State James Baker's memoirs,
which should be published in early
1995. However, DeFrank said he
doesn't have the vanity towritea
book about himself.
"After all, I am one of the few
reporters who knows his place," he
said. "I'm a reporter. A reporter
should cover the news, not make
the news."
As for his experiences at The
Battalion, DeFrank said, " 1 sup-
pose that if I thought about it, and
if I had an ego, I suppose I would
say I've had the last laugh on any
one who thought I was a no-good,
irresponsible, smart aleck kid. On
the other hand, you learn from
your scar tissue, and I've certainly
learned from mine, beginning at
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