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...ruined the presidency when we gave him that jet," the late Peter Lisagor of the old Chicago Daily News once mused. "A President gets on that plane, leaves his problems behind, looks down on a beautiful globe and thinks he can run it. We ought to take the jet away and make him fly USAir...
...those miserable Ziegler briefings, the gang would trudge across Lafayette Square giving the anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions...
...late Peter Lisagor, who covered the White House for the Chicago Daily News, used to claim that the nature of the Government actually changed when the President acquired a jet. Lisagor saw Presidents substitute themselves for the old system of politics and diplomacy. The spectacle of the White House on the wing was good for the President's international image and domestic political prospects. Pushing aside the foreign service and the political leaders is sometimes necessary and has produced some dazzling results, but it also dumps any failures all over the President himself. There are other problems. Jimmy Carter...
...lack of class. Class is not always necessary for effective leadership; Lyndon Johnson sometimes demonstrated this. But if there is a dearth of achievement or other excitement, then a lack of class can be troublesome. The Carter Administration is drifting toward a description favored by the late Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, who used to say of the buffoons who brought us Watergate, "Class, they...
Died. Peter Lisagor, 61, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News and the best all-round newspaper correspondent in the nation's capital; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Born poor in West Virginia, Lisagor played semipro baseball to pay his way through the University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity...