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William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79
New York Times ^
| 9/28/2009
| ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Posted on 09/27/2009 11:19:38 AM PDT by fours
Edited on 09/27/2009 12:39:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: fours
RIP, Mr Safire. You were one of a kind. Your wisdom, wit and love of linguistics will be missed.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:28:02 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(86 44! (Impeach Obama!))
To: chuck_the_tv_out
"If he was on Nixon’s team, the odds are pretty good he was a plant." Oh for Pete's sake, he was a speech writer, not an advisor.
Welcome to FR.
82
posted on
09/28/2009 4:32:36 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(86 44! (Impeach Obama!))
To: Vaquero
Clattering cacophony of cogs and camshafts.
83
posted on
09/28/2009 4:35:18 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: cake_crumb
"he was a speech writer, not an advisor"
Because there's no advice implicit in speechwriting, of course. There's no power in speechwriting.
Purely perfunctory role. Could be done by a computer.
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posted on
09/28/2009 5:05:08 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Vaquero
Is he sitting, or standing with his leg cocked?
85
posted on
09/28/2009 5:06:10 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: fours
a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow
Wow - I did not know that. An amazing point in history.
RIP, Mr. Safire.
86
posted on
09/28/2009 5:08:05 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
To: rbg81
He always struck me as a RHINO.
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Paul or John was The Rhino. Coo, coo kee choo.
Safire, on the other hand, was a RINO.
87
posted on
09/28/2009 5:15:19 AM PDT
by
ExiledChicagoan
(I see a red door and I want it painted black. But that's just me.)
To: doug from upland
So sad that the true conservative leaders and columnists are passing away. Let us pray there are more to come on the horizon. RIP Mr. Safire.
To: fours
They go and die just when we need them the most...
89
posted on
09/28/2009 8:17:28 AM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
To: fours
I emailed him once, commenting about a quote from a Sherlock Holmes story (”the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime”). He actually replied to me, and as you would imagine, he was the very soul of courtesy. I had always been a fan, but from that day on, I was a rabid fan. He will be sorely missed.
To: fours
To: A.A. Cunningham
Nixon always lived by the code that a Republican could not win WITH only conservatives but could not win WITHOUT conservatives. Therefore, conservatives got the rhetoric, and liberals the action. John Newton Mitchell said as much.
To: cake_crumb
P.S - I wonder if he wrote “I am not a crook”
93
posted on
09/29/2009 6:29:21 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Theodore R.
“conservatives got the rhetoric, and liberals the action”
We’ve partially wised up to that since then.
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posted on
09/29/2009 6:30:14 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: fours
I used to love to read his wordsmith columns. Great stuff
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