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Louis J. Lefkowitz, Election Night, 1962 Society ofthe Silurians EXCEU.. ENCE IN JOUIL~AUSi" AU'ARns Hf\~'qU.:T 17,c Notional Arts Club 15 Grt/mercy Pork Soil/II Thursday, May 19th Drinks: 6 p.m. Dinner: 7:15 p.m. MoooJdjriends Merrimem e-mail: [email protected]:om Reserl'(lIiOIlS: Published by The Society of The Silurians, Inc. an organization of veteran New York City journalists founded in 1924 (212) 532-0887 by Charles Edward Russell, William O. Inglis, Perry Walton, and David G. Baillie. Price: Members and Glles{s S95 THE OLDEST PRESS CLUB IN THE UNITED STATES MARCH 2011 From the Pinnacle ofTelevision News to the Montana Skies B)' Bctsy Ashton Tom Brokaw turned 71 on FebnJary 6, 20 II, but thc boyish good looks and dccp, mcllifluous voice seem unchanged from what we saw and heard when he as­ cended to the anchor chair of thc NBC Nightly News in 1982, nearly thirty years ago. He has, for years, been the personi­ fication ofNBC News - the only person 10 have hosted all three of NBC's major news programs: The Today Show and Meel Ihe Pre.~s, in addition 10 Nightly News. Brokaw "retired" from that an­ chor chair in 2004 to become a Special Correspondelll for the network, which keeps him busier than most people less than half his age. On the January day before he spoke to the he de­ Silul'ial1s, Tom Brokaw at his 640-acre Dude Ranch, looking out at the Montana skies. scribed his work schedule: "This week alone J went out to South Washington to have lunch with Admiral I'm going to Chicago and coming back. with unemploymcnt and training a new Dakota and back on Sunday to profile a Mullen, the Chaimlan ofthe Joint Chiefs, I'm working on a series for The Today generation ofworkers. And then in April, military family because I'm doing a tap­ to talk about that. Tomorrow night I'm Show and Nightly News on 'America at I'm going to go back to lraq to catch up ing with Oprah on Friday with Mrs. going to Boston to kick off a year-long the Crossroads: about the still difficult with people that we intervicwed al thc Obama about military families and their series on the 50th Anniversary ofthe In­ economic conditions that exist in tllis coun­ beginning of the war. One of them we needs. So, yesterday I went down to auguration ofJohn F. Kennedy, and then try, especially when it comes to dcaling Continued on Page3 York Statc Attorney 'CallMeLouie' General for an impres­ By L.aurence I. Barrett tate Wide Totals sive tenure - 22 years, ~ ~lhou until he chose to retire Talking about extinction ofthe Repub­ ~ in 1978. But he held lican Party's liberal wing - and its mem­ that post before it be­ bers were liberal on most issues, not mod­ came identified with eratcs - amounts to beating a dead el­ 6. Wall Street whacking ephanl. Still, when the subject comes up, and other magnets for I do a mental roll call ofthose I knew and national headlines. In occasionally wrote abom in TIME or the fact, he bccame A.G. Herald Tribune. The most interesting per­ accidentally and one sonalities on that roster: Jacob Javits, John reason he held the of­ Lindsay, William Scranton, and ofcourse fice so long was his tal­ the fraternal governors, Nelson and ent for making friends Winthrop Rockefeller. rather than encmies. But the liberal Republican I remcmber J cannot claim to best, and fondly at that, is Louis J. have been his friend. Lefkowitz. New York political wonks of Truth be told, we wcre a certain age will recall the improbable barely acquainted. I rise ofthe guy from the Lower East Side, never did a full-blown the one who urged strangers to "call me story about him. Louie," the sidcwalk campaigner reputed Rather I consulted him to have introduced Nelson Rockefeller to occasionally and men­ both the potato and the kasha knish while tioned him in print a few showing the wasp candidate around times, only fleetingly, Delancy Street. over decades. Jlow­ Lefkowitz never got his mug on a news LIFE ever, the last of thosc mag cover and wasn't pursued by Sun­ The great liberal Republican triumverate: New York senatorJacob K. Javits, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, conversations, which day talk show producers. He was New Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, election night, 1962. Continued on Page 4 PAGE 2 SILURIAN NEWS MARCH 2011 movie reviews for Sholl' Magazine, con· tributed articles 10 Life Magazine and ArthurSchlesinger Jr: A Son Reflects Vallily Fair and E.\·quire, served as a Dy Stephen Schlesinger monthly columnisl for The IVall Streel JOllrnal. The New York Post and other My father, the late historian Arthur publications, and regularly wrote Op-Ed Schlesinger Jr., might have seemed like pieces for a variety of newspapers. the classic, bOYMicd, cloistered, aca­ Through his work as a speechwriter and demic, but he secretly yearned to be a aide toAdlai Stevenson, full-time Special journalist. He was brought up in a family Assistant to John Kennedy in the White in which teaching American history was House, later as an occasional advisor to the main business, a tradition begun by Robcrt Kenncdy and Democratic presi­ his father, Arthur Schlesinger Sr, who was dcntial candidates ranging from George one of the leading US historians at McGovern to Waltcr Mondale to Bill Harvard University. My father faithfully Clinton loAI Gorc to John Keny, he kcpt followed his father into the same field, abreast of the central issucs of his timc joining the Harvard history department and WTOle incisive commcntaries on them. after World War nin his rnid-20s, despite I-Ie sought out newspapers and magazines never earning his Ph.D. Yel throughout that reached the largest audiences in or· his life, he was allracted 10 the work of der to have the widest impact on the na· reporters. This was nol entirely surpris­ tionaI debate. Part ofthe enjoyment he ing as his own father was active in the took in this arena was stirring up verbal Neiman Fellows, an organization that fisticuffs ovcr his views. Toward thc cnd brought newsmen to Harvard for a year. ofhis lifc, in his late ROs, he lcamed how My father felt that journalists, with their to blog and addcd commcntaries for the fingers on the pulse ofthe nation, had in­ HII.!finglollpO.H.com to his editorial ar· teresting, rough and ready, careers, lead­ senal. ing cosmopolitan and intrib'lling lives, of­ Oddly enough, within his own acadcmic ten more so than academics. "The Froni carecr, such worldly ventures earned him Page" was his favorite movie. And, from quizzical stares from his professional col­ his historian's perspective, reporters were leagues. Many fellow scholars felt that it all writing the first dmfis ofhistory. was somehow demeaning or improper for He had an extraordinary circle of a highly influential and respected profes­ friends in the journalistic community. Tbcy sor like my father to write for popular includcd such luminarics as his Harvard publications. This attitude carried over, ill classmate and best-selling author, Teddy some respects, even to the success of While, The New Yorker political writer his best-selling books abollt such cel­ Richard Rovcre with whom he wrote a ebrated presidents as Andrew Jackson, book aOOm Tmman's firing of Genera[ Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kelilledy. Douglas MacAnhur entitled "The Gen­ Certain academics regarded the bravura eral and the President" as well as other reviews, enormous sales, and, 011 at least New Yorker worthies like the golf ana­ two occasions, Pulitzer Prizes he received, lyst Herbert Warren Wind, John Hersey, as proof of unscho[arly work. But he Edmund Wilson, EJ Kahn and Elizabeth never cared what his colleagues thought Drew; colulTlnists like Joseph Alsop, and he never flinched from playing a pub· James "Scotty" Reston, Walter lic role. He wanted to be an authoritative Lippmann, Rowland Evans, James figurc in the Amcrican marketplace of Wechsler, Murray Kcmpton and Mary ideas, both as an obsclVcr and partici­ McGrory; editors likc Washington pant. He did this for over seventy years. The Doug Holt Photography Post~· Ben Brad[ee, The 80SIOII Globe $ He became a historian/joumalist in the Tom Winship, Time Magazine:S Henry Stephen Schlesinger and his beloved father, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. finest scnse of both words. Gnmwald and Newsweek sOz E[liott and John Meacham; Washing/oil Post pub­ 80Sl01l Globe sWashington officc and is lishers Phil and Katherine Graham, and now editor of thc Opinion pagc of US TV anchors like John Chancellor and News alld World Reporl wcbsite. As for Walter Cronkite, and many others. myself, despite having a law degree, I He cncouraged all of his sons to go started free-lancing for The Village Voice intojournalism (though not his two daugh­ after graduation. Later I founded and ed­ ters). My younger brolher Andrew was ited my own Illagazine, The New Demo­ a reporter for 711e Nashville 7bmessean cral, a monthly publication on the liberal­ and The Rocky MoulI/ai" News and later left of the Democratic Party in the late a producer for ABC's Close-Up. Today [960s. Evcntually I gravitated to becom­ he is a freelancer. My youngest brother, ing a columnist for 711e 80stoll Globe Robert, was a one-time reporter for The writing thc. "L'terary Life" column. At one point, my father tried to redirect me to The Nell' York Times but in my youlhful arrogance I for­ sook a chance to selVe as deputy to Harrison Salisbury as he was setting up the New York Tillle.~ Op-Ed page.
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