Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Greater Boston Feminist Fair voted Boston Globe Columnist George Frazier "Worst Male Chauvinist Pig" for his comments on the women's movement and awarded him a muzzle, he had it bronzed and placed over his fireplace. After he made the White House "enemies list," having labeled Richard Nixon "a louse" and David Eisenhower "the creepy kid," Frazier observed the occasion typically. He donned a starched dickey shirt, planted a carnation in the buttonhole of his 30-year-old Brooks Brothers suit, and sauntered over to Locke-Ober's Café for his favorite finnan haddie dinner...
...there are the quirks that make America so endlessly amusing and fascinating. In a San Diego dawn, that Eastern liberal warhorse Murray Kempton, a writer and sometime columnist, titillated the Nixon folks with his gentle irreverence on one of those wake-up TV shows. "I liked Nixon when he was a Commie fighter," he said. "He believed it. It was pure." Then there was the night Bill Hall, a liberal editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, one of those splendid small papers that keep our society awake, found himself defending Nixon before students at the University of Idaho. When Nixon...
...that war reporters write for the censors. Wartime censorship made sense to Reston; he often has said that reporters must not delve into areas in a way that might threaten the country's safety. The lessons learned by Reston the war reporter helped form the values of Reston the columnist. Referring to Vietnam in his 1965 lecture, he said, "It is clear in this time of half-war and half-peace that the old principle of publish-and-be-damned, while very romantic, bold and hairy, can often damage the national interest...
...Leader Hugh Scott insisted that they exonerate Nixon on some aspects of Watergate, presumably the cover-up of the origins of the wiretap and burglary at Democratic National Headquarters. Scott said that they also provide reasons for charging Dean with perjury in his Senate Watergate hearings testimony Last week Columnist Jack Anderson printed some excerpts from the White House summary of a March 21, 1973, Nixon-Dean talk. The summary, Anderson reported, supports the President's version of the conversation...
Near the end of the letter Schlesinger concluded that Lippman "might do us more good" as a columnist than as an ambassador...