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About Lawrence
Lawrence Meyer is a veteran, award-winning newspaper reporter and editor. He spent thirty-two years at The Washington Post, where he witnessed many of the twentieth century’s most dramatic events. During the 1970s, he covered the attempted assassination of Governor George C. Wallace, the Watergate break-in trial, the Senate Watergate hearings, and the subsequent impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon. His intimate familiarity with the thinking and politics at the heart of a great American newspaper lends remarkable accuracy and immediacy to The Final Edition.
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George Orwell Revisited II
“But today you are the law. You are the law. Not some book; not the lawyers; not the marble statue or the trappings of the court. These are just symbols of our desire for something just”. …
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National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’ The New York Times On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivered a commencement address at Harvard University. The speech had been given no public build-up because Marshall had told President Harry S Truman that he wanted none. In fact, the State Department had been discussing…
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“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’” …
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