Upon leaving the New York Times in 1958, White spent the remainder of his journalism career with the United Feature Syndicate until his 1973 retirement.
After writing works on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson throughout the 1960s, White received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
[1] While attending university, White entered journalism as a reporter for the Austin Statesman before becoming a legislative correspondent for the Associated Press in 1926.
[5] The following year, White took a two month break from the newspaper in 1953 to write a posthumous biography about Robert A. Taft for Harper & Brothers.
[8] Near the end of his tenure with the New York newspaper, White briefly taught as a regents professor at the University of California from 1957 to 1958.