Opinion | Learning Caution From a Late Columnist
April 25, 2021, 7:26 p.m. ET There have been many columnists for The New York Times, many of whom I have only heard or read about, some legendary in their skill and influence. One of those who came before me was a man named Thomas Wicker, a Southerner like myself. He’d been the lone Times reporter accompanying President John F. Kennedy on a trip to Dallas, and dictated the details of the assassination from a phone booth. Wicker, who wrote under the byline Tom Wicker, went on to inherit the column of the retiring Arthur Krock, whom The Times called “the dean of Washington pundits, who had ...
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