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Bourbon from Bush, envy from Nixon… and running into Herbert Hoover: encounters with eight presidents

Peregrine Worsthorne’s dealings with leaders of the free world, as a journalist, as a friend, and as a little boy running in the hallway

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

25 October 2014

9:00 AM

I feel a bit of a fraud writing about the ‘presidents I knew’, since journalists do not really get to know the great figures they interview or shake hands with. Indeed the relationship between journalist and great personage is about as false as any relationship can be, since each is trying to make use of the other.

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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, and reported from Washington DC for the Times and the Daily Telegraph.


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