Word: lisagor
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...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...
Some of Washington's best print journalists-Peter Lisagor, David S. Broder, Hugh Sidey and Elizabeth Drew-who appear often on TV panels, also understand televised neutrality. They too should do well in the upcoming quartet of Ford-Carter and Dole-Mondale debates. Earlier this year, when the League of Women Voters televised discussions among the scramble of Democratic contenders, a different kind of questioner presided. Hoping to avoid the journalist's presumed superficiality, the league turned instead to specialists in such subjects as energy, foreign affairs, welfare and economics. They did not work out well. Some were...
...Johnny One Note about them, as Tom Wicker does with his angry Southern passion for civil liberties and prison reform, or Anthony Lewis with his affinity for the law and the opinions of the Harvard law faculty. Dave S. Broder ranks as the best political reporter in town. Peter Lisagor is admired for his wry sanity. Mary McGrory, a hard-working reporter, is experienced but not cynical, which may be why her dislikes are sometimes more firmly based than her enthusiasms...
When Fritz Mondale made the pilgrimage to Plains-to what the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor referred to as "the Court of St. James"-Carter found himself immensely and unexpectedly impressed. Mondale, known as one of the most reflective and studious men in the Senate, had thoroughly backgrounded himself on Carter. He made a point of reading Carter's autobiography Why Not the Best?, which he kiddingly referred to last week as "the best book ever written." Although Mondale is one of the most liberal men in the Senate, Carter found him undogmatic, practical and ideologically as well...