[2] His coverage included the downfall of Ware Group member of Progressive Party Lee Pressman in February 1948.
[4] In the late '50s he covered the James Hoffa / Teamsters Union hearings and through that assignment met Robert Kennedy.
In the spring of 1960 the NY Times made Loftus the reporter for Kennedy's campaign and then traveled the country with the candidate up through the election.
Afterwards the NYTs made Loftus the White House reporter which he then covered through the assassination and into the Johnson administration.
[2] In 1969, Loftus became a communications specialist to Secretary of Labor George P. Shultz as part of the presidential administration of the newly elected Richard Nixon.