Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
Source: The Making of the President 1960, Atheneum 61
-- Theodore H White, (May 6 1915-1986), US historian, author; He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in America in Search of Itself, 1986.