Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide as any in Washington. Sit long enough in his law office on New Hampshire Avenue and you will hear him deal with a dazzling cross section of Washington's notables in both parties, from Senate Majority Leader Bob Byrd to Treasury Secretary James Baker to Newspaper Columnist Robert Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast...
...local political columnist sarcastically calls him "Michael the Good." Many of his supporters refer to him as "the Duke." If it weren't so shocking it would be almost funny--that this short, homely, boring, geek of a governor named Michael Stanley Dukakis is the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
Frank del Olmo, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Nieman Fellow this year, moderated the discussion...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who barely won the nomination, was labeled by the leading columnist of the day, "A very nice man who would very much like to be president." Not only did John F. Kennedy '40 barely win the nomination, his margin of victory in the general election was so small it has been alleged that he only won because of political chicanery by Daley's Chicago political machine. And our current president was best known as a joke in a Johnny Carson monologue before he managed to scale the White House walls on his second...
Former fellows include Washington Post columnist David S. Broder, feminist Betty Freidan, current presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon (D--III.) and former Congressman Bella Abzug...