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...courtly, imposing figure, given to Olympian judgments. A longtime associate characterized him as "something of a grandee." Nearly everyone called him Mr. Krock. During 66 years as a journalist, Arthur Krock was the confidant-and quite often the prickly conscience-of the select and powerful in Washington. The mighty talked to him trustingly as a friend or warily as a critic, but almost always they talked...
...working day for Krock might include conversations with Cabinet officers, lunch at the Metropolitan Club, then an interview with the newsmaker of the day. On occasion that happened to be the President. Because of Krock's integrity as a reporter and his power as the New York Times's chief man in Washington for 20 years, he had the confidence and antipathy at various times of such diverse Presidents as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1935 and 1938, and was nominated for a third, which would have...
Lawrence was not a Washington personality in the manner of the Alsop brothers or the late Drew Pearson. Nor was he an eminence like Walter Lippmann or Arthur Krock. In recent times the readership of his newspaper column declined, and his writing became utterly predictable. But for more than 60 years Lawrence was a formidable journalist who always knew his audience...
...Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock...
...Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock...