Political reporter Tom DeFrank plans to headline Silver Owls Fall Hoot, Nov. 14, 12:30 p.m.

The National Press Club's Silver Owls are planning their Fall Hoot featuring acclaimed reporter and raconteur Tom DeFrank for Nov. 14 at noon in the NPC's Holeman Lounge.

The Silver Owls Fall Hoot is open to all Press Club members and guests. The cost is $35 per person. There will be a cash bar and brief reception preceding the luncheon. Click here for tickets.

For more than 30 years, DeFrank had one of the most unique relationships that ever existed between a reporter and president. In 1974, DeFrank, then a White House correspondent for Newsweek magazine, interviewed then-Vice President Gerald Ford. During the course of the interview Ford said something he wished he hadn't.

"Write it when I'm dead," Ford said, convincing DeFrank not to publish the inadvertent comment. That resulted in 32 years of conversations between Ford and DeFrank with a mutual agreement that the talks could be made public only after Ford's death. The result was DeFrank's 2007 New York Times best selling book Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford.

DeFrank, whose career included a quarter century as Newsweek Magazine's senior White House correspondent and a seven year stint as Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Daily News, is currently a contributing editor at National Journal. In his career DeFrank has covered nine presidents and a dozen presidential campaigns. ABC News has called DeFrank an "excellent, well-connected and influential," Washington journalist, while the American Journalism Review rates him as "one of the unsung stars of Washington journalism."