Charles McDowell Jr. Quotes


The fact that nothing bad happened is good enough.


Context

Commenting on the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1988:


Citations

Charles McDowell Jr., Journalist, PBS Convention Week in Review, July 20, 1988

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Charles Rice McDowell Jr. was a long-time political writer and nationally syndicated columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and panelist on PBS-TV's Washington Week in Review. McDowell appeared in an interview in Ken Burns' documentary The Congress; provided the character voice for Sam R. Watkins in Burns' documentary The Civil War; and provided character voice as well as consultation for Burns' documentary Baseball. McDowell was a Washington and Lee University alumnus and a member of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.