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Article: SHY AND SELF-EFFACING TO THE LAST, MAGGIE DIDN'T WANT TO TALK.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 15, 1997
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Damned if I know why Warren Magnuson, the former senator from Washington, did not want to sit for an ``oral biography.'' The table was set. Jermaine Magnuson, his wife and closest companion, liked the idea. So did his friends downtown, passing the hat to finance the project. The Post-Intelligencer had granted this columnist a month's leave of absence to ask the questions and handle the tape recorder.
Nothing ever happened. And then Maggie, as folks on the streets and in the taverns called him, died. The chance to de-brief the man accountable for the most prolific and productive political career in Northwest history had passed; the chance to seek answers to ...
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