Word: columnist
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Like the new gentleman caller, Jimmy Carter went visiting the old Democratic power structure in Washington last week, a bouquet of primary victories under his arm. The night before his smashing victory in Illinois, he courted 30 heavyweight Democrats and journalists over dinner at the Georgetown home of Liberal Columnist Clayton Fritchey. The guests included Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Sol Linowitz and former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Moving from table to table between courses, Carter charmed nearly everyone and surprised many with his grasp of the issues...
...York Times Columnist William Safire (a Kissinger colleague in Nixon's day but now an implacable enemy) gloated over Kissinger's discomfiture. But many Washington journalists, whatever their views of Kissinger's policies, gratefully regard him as the ablest private explainer of public policy in Washington. His leaks are easy to spot. A recent story in the Times begins: "Henry A. Kissinger has concluded that Cuba is again in the business of 'exporting revolution.' " The story goes on: "But Mr. Kissinger has reportedly decided not to say this in public for now." Kissinger thus "goes...
...years ago a New York Times editorial described the trial of "the Chicago Seven" as "the shame of American justice"-and many Americans agreed. Last week Rubin, 37, now promoting his newest book, Growing (Up) at 37, confessed in a guest column in the Chicago Sun-Times, courtesy of Columnist Bob Greene, that he and his co-defendants were "guilty as hell. Guilty as charged." Explained Rubin: "Let's face it. We wanted disruption. We planned it." But, added Rubin, " 'guilty' does not mean 'wrong...
...course, Kissinger argued that Atherton had gone further than the Secretary had wanted him to. At week's end, Atherton was given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter whose phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered...
Editorial writers, Columnist Murray Kempton once wrote, are the men who come out of the hills to shoot the wounded after the battle. For some time, many American thinkers have been picking through the still-smoking carnage and rubbish of the '60s, finishing off ideas -for example, Consciousness III and the millenarian pretensions of "the movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into...