He was, after all, already seated across from the bulk of the campaign press corps.
Mr. Naughton figured prominently in Timothy Crouse's book on the 1972 campaign press corps, "The Boys on the Bus".
Last Saturday night, Mr. Gore broke a deep freeze with his campaign press corps by inviting reporters to an off-the-record gathering on the riverboat.
As the presumptive nominee of his party, the campaign press corps has to cover much of what he says and does.
The dark side of this is that there was a time when candidates perceived a unique benefit in courting the most influential members of the campaign press corps.
After this campaign I Corps returned to Rockhampton, where it was engaged in the training of the Allied forces beginning to arrive in that area for the coming campaigns.
Following this campaign the corps directed the seizure of the island of Biak, which was secured by 24 June, to complete the advances necessary for the subsequent invasion of the Philippine Islands.
Just as Hastings ruffled feathers within the campaign press corps, he similarly antagonized veterans on the foreign policy and national security beat a couple years later, when he published "The Runaway General," the Rolling Stone story about McChrystal.
The debate seems to be over whether an event with five pre-selected journalists amounts to a press conference, or if a press conference requires a more freewheeling exchange between the candidate and members of the campaign press corps. .
"The WHCA expects the new president-elect to have a protective pool immediately, just like the president does, and we are set to take over coordination of the pooling process from the campaign press corps directly after the election," members of the WHCA board wrote.
The McCain campaign has a corps of volunteers but no paid workers.
