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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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The Media’s Frankenstein
By Lawrence Meyer Donald Trump held a press conference on August 8 in the ballroom of his “home,” Mar a Lago–at least he called it a press conference. The press was there, of course, but they were actually props who asked questions that no one watching on live television could hear, allowing Trump to go on at great length about…
Read MoreCorporal J.D. Vance’s military career in perspective
J.D. Vance has taken on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his military service—more than 20 years in the Army National Guard, retiring as a master sergeant. Vance has criticized Walz for allegedly resigning from the National Guard when his unit was deployed to Iraq. “What bothers me about Tim Walz,” Vance said, “is the stolen valor garbage.” “As a Marine…
Read MoreWhat Were They Thinking?
Fifty years ago this month the House Judiciary Committee was preparing for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. The committee ultimately charged Nixon with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress. Nixon had participated in the cover-up of crimes committed by his agents—the Watergate break-in, the burglary of the offices of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist—and the attempt to…
Read MoreTrump, Thoreau and Jesus
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play…
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