[3] After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, he briefly attended Haverford College before dropping out to join the army infantry during World War II.
He resigned due to a $6 million debt that required NPR to be bailed out by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and member stations.
[5] He had also served as regional director for the Peace Corps in Latin America, presidential campaign press secretary in 1968 to U.S.
Once Kennedy was admitted to GSH, news correspondents set up temporary press headquarters in a nearby gymnasium.
Several hours later, Mankiewicz returned to the news media headquarters with this report:The team of physicians attending Senator Robert Kennedy is concerned over his continuing failure to show improvement during the post-operative period.
In January 1975, Mankiewicz and Lawrence Eagleburger held a clandestine meeting with Castro's representative Ramón Sánchez-Parodi at LaGuardia airport.
He wrote: As part-time advisor to Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1984—the first I had participated in actively since 1972—I was struck by the minutiae of the press's questions.
"Mankiewicz lived in Washington, D.C., with his wife, novelist Patricia O'Brien, who also writes under the pseudonym of Kate Alcott.
[8] In 2016, Mankiewicz's memoir was published So as I Was Saying ... My Somewhat Eventful Life, with coauthor Joel Swerdlow (Thomas Dunne Books).
[3] His son, Ben, stated that he died of internal bleeding,[10] while son Josh, an NBC News correspondent, and family spokesman Adam Clymer, a former New York Times reporter, both said the reason for his hospitalization had been heart and lung problems, and that he had died of heart failure.