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Article: WILLIAM SAFIRE
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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Waspish journalist and Nixon speechwriter later celebrated for
his 'On Language' column
It was one of the more remarkable transitions in the history of
American communications - from barbed speechwriter for a reviled,
soon-to-be-disgraced Republican president to columnist who adorned
the editorial pages of the pre-eminent liberal newspaper in the land
for more than 30 years. But William Safire was never easy to
categorise.
His own political views he described as "libertarian
conservative," and Safire gave weekly proof of them in his long
tenure as a columnist for the New York Times. But whether inveighing
against Democrats or Republicans, the former loyalist of Richard
Nixon pulled no ...