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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...
...traffic violation on one and a love affair on another). Johnson asked for similar checks on at least seven journalists who had displeased him. They included NBC's David Brinkley, Columnist JOseph Kraft, Associated Press's Peter Arnett, the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J. also sought from the FBI, and duly received, information on critics of the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of Jack Kennedy (though Johnson himself doubted its conclusion, suspecting that Castro had had a hand in the murder...
...sure, one reason that the President travels so much is that marvelous plane," Peter Lisagor, a Washington wit, tells his lecture audiences these days. "The way to keep the President at home more is to take Air Force One away from him and make him fly Allegheny ..." Lisagor swears that before he is able to finish the line, his listeners are roaring with laughter and clapping their approval...