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...talks like a folksy fellow from the country who made good in the city. He is doing a great job, and that sound earthiness and solidity gave all of us strength at a time when we were badly shaken. The history-minded might recollect similar speech qualities in Abraham Lincoln...
Lyndon Johnson is the hardest-working presidential tale spinner since Abraham Lincoln. Some of his yarns are long and tangled and full of Johnson's long-winded Texas syntax. Some are funny, some are pithy, and as often as not they are used to draw an Aesopian moral or to make a contemporary point. Some examples...
Privy to Everything. The Times's title of Thunderer was won in the last century when it was the biggest and most influential daily in the world. "I don't know of anything which has more power, except perhaps the Mississippi," said Abraham Lincoln to a Times correspondent sent over to report the Civil War. Disraeli was only half joking when he said that there were two British ambassadors in every foreign capital, one appointed by the Queen and one appointed by the Times. Its newsgathering apparatus seemed to be privy to everything...
...Hayek and Physicist Leo Szilard. Proving that youth is no barrier to getting elders' ears, Chicago's review has been cited in at least ten recent Supreme Court decisions covering everything from prayer to pornography. Among its still-young ex-editors: Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who served on the first edition...
That happened 31 years ago. And, in the opinion of Abraham Michael Rosenthal, 41, who now commands the Times's 160-man army of local news men, it was symptomatic of much that has long ailed the Times's coverage of its own home town. The mere fact that so many hands could be mustered so fast for any single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn...