Nick Clooney, speaker at the National Society for Newspaper Columnists

A great speech with so much to think about.
Well done, Mr. Clooney!

Wonderful speech. Whole sections of it should be printed in all our newspapers for everyone to read - not just journalism students. He has a lot to say that all of us can benefit from heairing.

George says he didn't go into journalism because he could never be as good as Nick. He's right. Those would be very big shoes to fill.

Nick has a strong personality
Tough

Brilliant speech.  Nick is so insightful.  His many years in journalism have served him well.  He has his finger on the pulse of where are country has been and where it is.

We will never know....


What I know is

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melbert wrote:"As it happens, Walter Cronkite and his wife, Betsy, and my wife, Nina, and I, late in all of our lives, became very good friends. We had met, briefly, at the Republican National Convention in 1976, but it was years later we spent a long evening together at one of those chicken-and-peas benefit dinners. The conversation got fairly animated and before the night was over, by the strange alchemy through which these things sometime happen, we were friends. Just phone calls at first, then meetings for drinks, then family dinners, a couple of vacations – we did a few speeches together."


Did Nick "borrow" from George, or did George "borrow" from Nick?

Yeah, I caught that, too.

They're father and son, it's not strange that they use the same expressions; I don't think they even know who said it first.

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Sweet!