Word: lisagor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...