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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 Human Wrecking Ball
Bad Men from Bodie weren’t ordinary scoundrels, they came with the land, and you could no more cope with them than you could with dust or hailstones. Welcome to Hard Times, E.L.Doctorow If the hive be disturbed…
Is Donald Trump a Preview?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. English nursery rhyme “Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.” Melvin Douglas as Homer Bannon in “Hud” America has had a lot of presidents during its…
The Irony of J.D. Vance
If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be a 12-hour news story. …
Who Are We?
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves….. Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. Melvin Douglas as Homer Bannon in Hud In September 1958, Sherman Adams, President Eisenhower’s chief of staff, was forced to resign because he had accepted…