Marianne Hansen Means

(1934- ) lived in Lincoln. Journalist, author, political columnist, known as first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the White House from 1961 to 1965, she has been a political columnist for King Features Syndicate and Hearst Newspapers since 1965, contributed to magazines and authored The Woman in the White House (Random House, 1963), appeared as commentator on various radio and television public affairs programs; has served in several organization leadership positions. Consult Newsweek, May 4, 1964, pp. 87-88 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, March 5, 1972, p. E-4 and Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists (Greenwood Press, 1995) p. 210 and Who's Who of American Women (2002-03) 880.

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