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...Russert was a giant in our field - a standard-bearer of journalistic integrity and ethics. His masterful interviews and round-table discussions are legendary." - Walter Cronkite, former CBS News anchor...
...Today, broadcast journalism lost one of its giants, who will be remembered along with names like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley. The city of Buffalo has also lost its favorite son, who loved his city and its hometown team, the Bills." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif...
...Hire Some Pizazz Some nominees find themselves in need of excitement. That explains why Walter Mondale tapped Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman on a national ticket, in 1984. "This is an exciting choice," he said at the time. Within weeks, Mondale did not see it that...
...Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial proponent of an outdated philosophy. Exit polls during last month’s midterm elections illustrated this perception: they showed President Reagan comfortably ahead of Kennedy and of fellow old-style liberal Walter F. Mondale. Voters apparently doubted—with reason—whether the two Democratic frontrunners had any fresh alternatives to Reaganomics, believing the two men intended simply to continue throwing money at the nation’s problems. Kennedy’s withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats...
...trial as a lewd work was hardly in the tradition of Ulysses. It consisted mainly of a parade of poetry professors from nearby universities to justify Ginsberg’s sexual imagery as an instrument of rendering his vision of human experience. Mark Schorer (of Berkeley), Walter Van Tillburg Clark, and Kenneth Rexroth (strawman poet and loquacious spokesman for the North Beach literati) told Judge Clayton Horn that the language of vulgarity was for Ginsberg a natural vernacular. (Ginsberg, after a stint at Columbia had been educated in night-spots, ghost towns, and freight car pilgrimages west...