Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bert Lance ever needs another loan, he might consider asking William Safire. The Nixon-Agnew speechwriter-turned-columnist surely has the money, having made about $1 million from his bestselling Washington novel, Full Disclosure (TIME, July 4). He also has a personal admiration for Lance. "A likable man," says Safire, "and one of the very few in the Carter Administration to return my phone calls...
Lance is not likely to be queuing at Safire's window any time soon. Despite his fondness for the now defrocked Budget Director, Safire was one of Lance's most relentless journalistic tormentors. The columnist began writing about Lance's alleged financial improprieties in July, and a week before Lance bowed out Safire even conjured up an eloquent, 946-word television address in which the President announced that Bert and LaBelle were going home. Carter used...
Lancegate, as Safire has christened the controversy, does not mark the first time he has been out front of most of the Washington press corps. In four years as a New York Times columnist he has helped keep journalistic attention on such languishing scandals as Korean influence buying and John Kennedy's liaison with Judith Campbell Exner. In the Lance affair, Safire for a time had so many fresh allegations that Times editors in New York asked Washington staffers what he knows that they...
Satire's casual contrariness has won him some reluctant admirers. "The most influential columnist in the country," says Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves. "I'm not enamored of his political viewpoint, which is sometimes to the right of Genghis Khan. But, hell, I read him because I have to. He's not predictable...
...native New Yorker, Safire dropped out of Syracuse University to become a researcher for Columnist Tex McCrary, joined McCrary's public relations firm, and later struck out on his own. As press agent for a "typical American house" at a Moscow exhibition in 1959, he lured Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev into their now famous "kitchen debate...