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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.
Latest Blog Posts
The Washington Post
I started at The Washington Post in late January 1969. The Post then was a good, but not yet great, newspaper. Ben Bradlee had been at The Post since 1965, first as managing editor, then as executive editor. He was making a lot of changes. I suppose I was one of them. The first time I came into the newsroom…
No Time for Silence
“Maldito sea el soldado que vuelva su arma contra su pueblo” …
The Mind of Donald Trump
Iranians can thank Donald Trump for pressuring their government to stop slaughtering protesters. At least that’s what Donald Trump says. Now maybe he can get federal law enforcement to stop killing American protesters. A cynical version of what’s going on in Minneapolis is that ICE agents were sent there to provoke protests so that more agents could be sent, leading…
A Man of Flexible Principles
But you who philosophize disgrace And criticize all fears …