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Editor, Not since the erudite then later feloniously challenged Vice President Spiro Agnew opined that our national press establishment was largely “an effete corp of impudent snobs” has our fourth estate been held in such generally low regard.

Mr. Agnew was talking about, at that time, such press luminaries as Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, John Chancellor, Dan Rather, Howard K. Smith, and a young Tom Brokaw.

History shows that while the swinging pendulum of political attacks against the press can sometimes be vicious and wholly unwarranted, it also demonstrates the same said pendulum can leave political operatives such as Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, the aforementioned Spiro Agnew and many others from both major political parties in the ashbin of history.

While considering this narrative, we should remember one of the most celebrated quotes from our late President Harry Truman, himself an avid reader of a rich diversity of historical tomes.

Mr. Truman said, “The only thing new in the world is the history you haven’t read.”

Virgil Hess
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