He was diagnosed in January of 2000. In late November, my mom called me to say that things were looking bad, and that if I wanted to have a last visit, I should get a move on. This was at the beginning of the week, I asked, "like tomorrow?" She said, maybe not, but not much later. I booked a flight over to Washington for that Saturday, returning to Germany the next Tuesday. I called when the plane landed, and my dad answered the phone. Still there, luckily. But Monday morning, he was in a bad way, and didn't make it til noon. It was hard to take. We laid him to rest at Arlington a month later, when my wife and daughters could come over for the ceremony.
I have never posted anything of him on DU, but I will make an exception here. Of the two journalists being interviewed, he is the one from New York. It was about the withdrawal of the nomination of Douglas Ginsburg for the Supreme Court. He only rarely did TV appearances, was more comfortable in his main role as a print journalist. This is from 1987.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?205-1/douglas-ginsburg-withdrawal
There aren't many journalists of his caliber left--if any. It's why I never even tried to go into journalism. Those were shoes I never even attempted to fill.
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