Russell Baker Quotes
Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.
Russell Baker, Syndicated Columnist, Description of Political Reporting, Quoted in New York Times, December 7, 2003
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Haldeman had actually called the network executives on several occasions regarding Cavett’s show. Nixon was particularly furious when Cavett interviewed John Kerry, the decorated soldier who had thrown his medals away in protest to the handling of the Vietnam War. Nixon wanted some stronger actions taken.
Russell Wayne Baker was an American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1983). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 stated: "Baker, thanks to his singular gift of treating serious, even tragic events and trends with gentle humor, has become an American institution."
