Marianne Means

Marianne Means
Means in 1983
Born	Marianne Hansen (1934-06-13)June 13, 1934 Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
Died	December 2, 2017(2017-12-02) (aged 83) Washington, D.C., U.S.[1]
Occupation	Journalist columnist
Alma mater	University of Nebraska George Washington University
Spouses	C. Paul Means ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1961)​ Emmet Riordan ​ ​ (m. 1965; div. 1969)​ Edward H. DeHart (c. 1970s) Warren Weaver Jr ​ ​ (m. 1976; died 1997)​ James J. Kilpatrick ​ ​ (m. 1998; died 2010)​

Marianne Means (née Hansen; June 13, 1934 – December 2, 2017) was an American journalist and syndicated political columnist based in Washington, D.C. who, for many years, was a White House correspondent. She started her career as a reporter and advanced to the role of a copy editor for a newspaper in Nebraska for a couple of years. She then relocated to Washington, D.C. where she took a position as the chief editor for a Virginia newspaper and supervised a staff of men for two years. She later transferred to Hearst Newspapers where she was a Washington bureau correspondent. She covered the reporting of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. Then she reported full-time at the White House and was the first female reporter to do this. There were rumors she was one of Kennedy's many lovers. She covered Kennedy's assassination and the transition to the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson. As a political reporter for The New York Times she reported on every presidential campaign from Kennedy to Bill Clinton. She was an international commentator and television personality.