As just reported by Reuters-
William Safire -the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist for the NYT, Nixon WH speechwriter, and entertaining linguist- died today in Maryland at age 79.
He was an author too, and got involved with Nixon/politics as a speechwriter after meeting him at the Nixon vs. Kruschev kitchen debates in Moscow- where Safire took the most famous photo of the 1960 event.
Read more -here-
& may this good man rest in peace-
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NY Times' William Safire archives -here-
