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Article: WILLIAM SAFIRE, COLUMNIST AND SU TRUSTEE, DIES AT 79; POLITICAL PUNDIT WAS SU COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER IN 1978 AND 1990.(News)(Obituary)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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Byline: Staff and news service reports ; Contributing writer Nina Wegner and The New York Times contributed to this report.
William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop's treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the family.
There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one ...