abstract:James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty," was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times.
Eisenhower was no isolationist James Reston noted in the New York Times that in his first inaugural, 41 of the 48 paragraphs were devoted to foreign affairs.