Hope you read Frank Rich piece in the NY Times today. Halberstam spoke at my undergraduate graduation from Drew University in 1994, shortly after celebrating the 20th-anniversary of the publishing of his “The Best and the Brightest”. (Gary Trudeau satirized him in Doonesbury as “a writer of mighty tomes”.) I wonder what he’d have thought about President-Elect Obama’s appointments. But given his passing last year and my memory of his perspective, I think he’d mostly approve. -SA
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