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One of the reasons President John F. Kennedy wanted to create the White House Rose Garden as we have known it for the past 58 years was to make it easier for the media to cover him at the dawn of the age of TV news.
Reporters had a cozier relationship with the president back then, but it is a measure of how wide the chasm has become between the current administration and the mainstream media that when first lady Melania Trump announced the wholesale renovation of the Rose Garden, the work was already getting started.
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