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...crayon the package is marked the New Republic (whose offices are on the second floor), but addressed to no one in particular there; it is signed TRB. The need for secrecy vanished years ago-everyone knows that TRB's Washington column is written by Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-but Strout is a meticulous and habitual...
This week after 40 years, Strout ceases to be TRB. At 85 he decided that he could no longer do two jobs properly, but will continue to report Washington for the Monitor, as he has for 62 years. Strout is pleased but a little unnerved by the adulation of his colleagues and the attention he has been getting. The phone rings: the MacNeil-Lehrer Report wants him on the air. "I'm saying the same corny stuff to everyone," he tells them. "I'm warning you I'm running...
...often find the old ways better, but Strout is a liberal who remembers without nostalgia when the World Almanac published an annual table of lynchings. He has watched at close hand one-third of all American Presidents. Characteristically, he insists that he has never been "intimate with any of them." He recalls being scandalized at his first presidential press conference in 1922 by irreverent questions thrown at Warren G. Harding, who in plus fours pleaded, "Gentlemen, go easy. I want to get out and play some golf." And when Calvin Coolidge dictated a single sentence, had 25 copies...
...column (the initials stand for nothing) took Strout about eight hours to write, but all week he had been "storing up and getting mad at things." In recent years, anger at current issues often gave way to reminiscence, a valuable commodity in a capital with more monuments than memories. Strout considers Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time." He remembers the "charming, bumbling Eisenhower, who gave us a caretaker Government just when we wanted it, but who had the sense to look at the clock, not to try to turn it back." L.B.J. was "an elemental force" whose Viet...
...officials at American University have reserved judgement on the business until a later date, it has run into some opposition from professors of courses who object to the presence of note-takers who are not enrolled in their courses. "We are not selling education for free," said Professor Richard Strout, of the University's School of Communications. American University Eagle. February...