Journalist, government official. Investigator, U.S. Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (1957-1959); Press secretary to Senator John F. Kennedy (1959-1960); Press Secretary to the President (1961-1964). Pierre Emil Salinger first served as Senator Kennedy’s press secretary and later as his press officer in the 1960 presidential campaign. In 1961 he was appointed White House press secretary and held this position through 1964, when he resigned to run for US Senate.
White House Staff Files (1960-1964) consist of correspondence, press briefings, announcements, press releases, press conferences, news clippings, job applications, telephone memorandums, classified background briefing material, subject files, and publishers luncheons file.
Papers (1959-1964) consist of Salinger's press briefings, interim reports, bound house and senate committee reports, and miscellaneous campaign information.
Interview (1965, 206 pp.) conducted for the John F. Kennedy Oral History Program. Interviews conducted for the Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Program (1969, 1970, 142 pp.).