Posted on 02/16/2019 10:11:40 AM PST by OddLane
Raymond K. Price Jr., a cerebral, pipe-smoking speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon who helped write the first and last words of his presidency, his Inaugural Addresses and his resignation speech, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 88.
His former lawyer Zenon B. Masnyj said Mr. Price had had a stroke and died at Lenox Hill Hospital. He lived in Lower Manhattan.
Mr. Price was the editorial page editor of The New York Herald Tribune when it closed in 1966, and when he joined Nixon’s nascent second presidential campaign the next year, he brought with him the sort of moderate Republicanism that had characterized that newspaper’s opinion pages.
His loyalty to Nixon was never-bending, even though he later admitted that he had been “deceived” by the president on aspects of the Watergate cover-up at the time it happened...
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Did he write “I am not a crook?”
Rest in peace, Mr. Price.
You served President Nixon and the country well.
Did he write, “Sock it to me”?
Band speechwriters. It’s pure fakery and reduces the President to being an actor. Lincoln wrote his Gettysburg address. Washington wrote his. Jefferson wrote his.
Modern presidents are lacking in overall intelligence
Ban them. Or at least have the decency for the president to step up and say “today i will be reading a speech written by Joe Blow.”
“The “soft bigotry of low expectations”. Always thought that was a great line.
Would have replaced the word “soft” with the word “subtle” though.
RIP.
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