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" When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. "

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" Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. "

Russell Baker

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Media

Pen

" The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. "

" You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. "

" Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. "

" Serious journalism need not be solemn. "

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. "

" Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. "

Russell Baker

Journalism

Politics

" Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. "

" Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. "

" Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. "

" Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. "

" It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. "

" American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001. "

" In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. "

" The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. "

" Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. "

" A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. "

" People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. "

" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "

Russell Baker

World

Myself

" An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. "

" Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy. "

" Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. "

" Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. "

" Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. "

" Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. "

" Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. "

" Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. "

" When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. "

" People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. "