Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was an American journalist, author and politician. He served as the ninth

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for United States Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Salinger served as a

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in 1964 and as

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for the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign. After leaving politics, Salinger became known for his work as an

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correspondent, particularly for his coverage of the

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; the bombing of

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over

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; and his claims of a missile being the cause of the explosion of

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Early life

Salinger was born in San Francisco, California. His father, Herbert Salinger, was a New York City-born

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, and his mother, Jehanne (née Biétry), was a French-born journalist. Salinger's mother was

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and his father was Jewish. His maternal grandfather was Pierre Biétry, a member of the

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, who became known for his "vigorous" defense of Capt.

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, who was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894. Bietry died in Indochina at the age of 39. Salinger was considered a child prodigy in music who played on a

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even before he learned to read. After his family moved to Canada, his parents discovered his innate talent at the piano and he was enrolled into the Toronto Conservatory of Music, where he was groomed to become a concert pianist. He recalled, "Each weekday, a tutor came to the house for three hours of academic instruction, and when she left, I was 'free' to practice the piano for four or five hours." He gave his first public concert when he was six and was considered a concert pianist.Pierre Salinger discusses his ''Memoir''
C-Span He continued studying piano after they returned to San Francisco and was able play scores by Bach, Debussy, Beethoven and

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, whom he once met. When he was 12, Salinger's mother told him his full-time piano studies were isolating him from society. She suggested he spend a year away from piano to engage in other social activities, including sports. He did, but never returned to his original goal of becoming a pianist and instead wanted to become a writer or journalist. His talent and love of music carried over into his career as press secretary when, at the behest of First Lady

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,Spann, Edward C. ''Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns'', Mercer Univ. Press (2008) p. 241 he would invite musicians such as

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and

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to the White House. President Lyndon B. Johnson once had Salinger perform on the piano to 600 of his guests. "If

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was the one who thought maybe America was ready for a higher culture, her ally in it or her agent was Pierre," said Richard Reeves, author of ''President Kennedy: Profile of Power'' (1993). Salinger attended public magnet Lowell High School in San Francisco. He attended

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(then College) from 1941 to 1943, during which time he became managing editor and columnist for the student newspaper. Salinger left SF State to enlist in the United States Navy in July 1943 and became skipper of a submarine chaser off Okinawa during

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. He distinguished himself during Typhoon Louise by making a daring rescue of some men stranded on a reef. For this act, he received the Navy and Marine Corps medal. After serving with the

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to the rank of Lieutenant, junior grade during

, he finished his studies at the

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, earning a BS in 1947. He began his journalism career as "Lucky Pierre," a horse racing columnist and later reporter for the ''

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'' and as a contributing editor to ''

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'' in the 1940s and 1950s.

Kennedy years

After Salinger researched and wrote a number of articles in 1956 about labor union leader

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, Robert F. Kennedy hired him to be legal counsel for the Senate Select Committee investigating organized crime. Later, Kennedy wanted him to be press secretary to his brother, John F. Kennedy, who was then a member of the Senate. Salinger worked on John Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960 and became one of its leading figures. He was at times described as being part of Kennedy's

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of unofficial advisers. After Kennedy was elected in 1961, he hired Salinger as his

. When Kennedy became the first president to allow live television broadcasts of his news conferences, Salinger was said to have managed the press corps with "wit, enthusiasm and considerable disdain for detail," which made him a "celebrity in his own right." He accompanied Kennedy to conferences with other world leaders, including the 1961 meeting with Soviet Premier

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in Vienna. When an aide to Khrushchev invited Salinger to Moscow, Kennedy assented to his going. Kennedy, however, had to explain to the press corps why he was sending a young and inexperienced Salinger to the

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. In May 1962, Salinger went to Moscow alone to meet with the press. Upon his arrival, he was unexpectedly invited to spend time with Khrushchev at his

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outside the city. They shared meals and took long hikes along country roads as they discussed politics and world events, such as the Berlin crisis. Salinger spent 16 hours over two days with Khrushchev. After their first day together, Khrushchev said, "I have had such a good time today, I think I will do it again tomorrow." In October 1962, Salinger briefed the press about what had been learned about Soviet missiles being stationed in Cuba. He later said that Kennedy's actions during that crisis were among the most incredible things a president had ever done in the 20th century and noted how close the countries had come to nuclear war. Oval Office LBJ in Jan

At the time of President Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Salinger was on a plane to Tokyo with six Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Salinger was to attend an economic conference and start working on a February 1964 visit by Kennedy as the first United States president to visit Japan since the end of

. Salinger was retained by President Lyndon B. Johnson as press secretary. Johnson said, "I don't have to tell you that Mr. Salinger was John F. Kennedy's press secretary... and I don't know what I would have done without him, night and day, over this past month." At one point in his career, Salinger briefly considered running for president, as he described in an interview about his ''Memoir'' in 1995. Salinger published a biography of the president, ''With Kennedy'', in 1966.Korengold, Robert J. (March 10, 1969) "Salinger finds niche in business." ''Washington Post''.

Senate run

Following his service in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Salinger returned to California and ran for the Senate. He defeated

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in a contentious Democratic primary. California Governor Pat Brown, who had supported Cranston, appointed Salinger a Democratic senator to fill the vacancy resulting from the July 30, 1964 death of retiring Senator

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; he took office on August 4, 1964. In his bid for a full six-year term in the 1964 election, Salinger was defeated by former actor and vaudeville song and dance man

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following a campaign in which Salinger's recent return to his native state became an issue and his legal residency was being challenged in court. He was also hurt by his adamant support, despite advice from his political managers, of legislation banning racial housing discrimination. Salinger's loss made California the sole Democratic-held seat to go Republican in what was otherwise a Democratic landslide. Salinger resigned from the Senate on December 31, 1964, three days before his term was to expire. Murphy, who was to take office on January 3, 1965, was appointed to fill the remaining two days of Salinger's term, giving Murphy a slight advantage in seniority in the Senate over other members elected in 1964 when seniority was more vital in Senate affairs than now. Salinger went on to work in the

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, which included a stint as a vice president of

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''Batman'' appearance

Salinger appeared in the January 4, 1968 episode of the

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series ''

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'' portraying "Lucky Pierre," a lawyer who defends

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and the Joker in a trial.

Robert Kennedy assassination

Salinger was one of the managers of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and was standing 10 to 12 feet away when Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on June 6. Salinger claimed that Jim McManus, who was also working on the campaign, said to him, "I've got to get the message to Los Angeles, under no circumstances should Bobby go through that kitchen ... there's usually grease on the floor. He's going to fall or something." Salinger, devastated by the assassination, moved to France and was a correspondent for the weekly news magazine ''

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''. In 1968, he became director of Great America Management and Research Company (GRAMCO), a mutual investment fund in US real estate aimed at foreigners.

Radio

In 1978, Salinger took over ''Radio Caraïbes International'' with his friend, the French advertising pioneer Jacques Dauphin.

Journalism for ABC

In 1976, ABC Sports employed Salinger as a features commentator for the network's coverage of the

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and the Summer Games in Montreal,

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. In 1978, he was hired by

as its Paris bureau chief. He became the network's chief European correspondent based in London in 1983 when

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moved to New York to become sole anchor of ''

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'' after the death of Frank Reynolds. In 1981, Salinger was bestowed with a

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for his scoop that the US government was secretly negotiating to free Americans held hostage by

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. Salinger provided commentary on the 1989 Tour de France for ABC Sports. In the 1980s, he was well known as a member of Amiic World Real Estate Investment Organization in Geneva, with

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and

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. The organization was dissolved in 1997. In a November 1989 report for ABC's ''

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'', Salinger claimed that Iran had paid

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

and Ahmed Jibril, the head of the

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(PFLP-GC), to carry out the Pan Am 103 bombing. After the August 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait, ABC started work on a special program about the invasion. The network sent Salinger to the Middle East, where he obtained a transcript in

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of a conversation between

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and the US Ambassador to

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. The ambassador told Saddam, "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts," which was interpreted by some as giving Saddam the green light to invade

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, which he did only days later.

Claims about TWA Flight 800

Three months after the explosion of

, Salinger claimed to have received a document verifying conspiracy theories about the flight that it had been shot down by

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, and that this had been covered up by the United States government. He claimed that an intelligence agent had sent him the document. What Salinger was touting was, in fact, a hoax document that had been circulating the internet for weeks prior, and which had been emailed to him by a former airline pilot. By lending his distinction and credibility to these conspiracy theories, Salinger helped to bolster them. The term "Pierre Salinger Syndrome" was coined in the years after this. This is a

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term describing someone possessing the belief that everything on the internet is factual.

Later life

After leaving ABC, Salinger moved back to Washington and became an executive with

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, a public relations firm. In November 2000, he became exasperated when he was denied permission to give exonerating evidence as part of his testimony before the

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trying two Libyans for the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over

, Scotland. Salinger stated that he knew who the real bombers were, but was told by trial judge

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, "If you wish to make a point you may do so elsewhere, but I'm afraid you may not do so in this court." During the

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, Salinger said that he would permanently move to France if George W. Bush won, and fulfilled this promise after Bush's victory. He died from heart failure at the age of 79 on October 16, 2004, at a hospital in Cavaillon, near his home, La Bastide Rose, in Le Thor. He is interred in

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Notes

References

External links

Poppy And Pierre Salinger Foundation
*
Pierre Salinger Museum
*Oral history interview on California politic

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