Russell Baker Quotes
That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.
See Richard Joseph Daley and Don Hewitt.
Russell Baker, Syndicated Columnist, Reference to the first Nixon-Kennedy debate of 1960 where Nixon’s TV appearance may have cost him the election
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Referring to the JFK-Nixon debate where the TV camera showed Nixon sweating: See Don Hewitt {603411} and Richard Joseph Daley {599089}
Nixon had refused makeup and had instead used a Lazy Shave shave stick. See Don Hewitt {603411} and Russell Baker{593945}.
the CBS makeup woman assigned to the debate Nixon’s reply was: “And I’d be dead now,” reflecting the belief that Lee Harvey Oswald just wanted to kill a President. See Russell Baker {593945} and Richard Joseph Daley {599089} on Nixon’s appearance.
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."
