TAS Pictorial: A Washington Story
A WASHINGTON STORY On February 20, 1991, The American Spectator and Libertad hosted the magazine's annual dinner at Washington's Willard Hotel the late President Grant's favorite watering hole. In...
...As for the names I've named tonight, they represent only a sampling of the writers who've done us proud...
...In a celebration of freedom honoring the magazine's Advisory Group and Washington Club membem master of ceremonies R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Super-reporters Michael Fumento and David Brock filled our pages with indispensable investigative work...
...I bet the locals were expecting me to say power...
...God bless them all or, as the case may be, God help them...
...P. J. O'Rourke, who as we speak is racing in his dune buggy across the Saudi desert, covered the Nicaraguan elections in our memorable May issue, which also featured Mary Eberstadt's delicious parody of Peggy Noonan's memoir...
...I hate to be so cavalier about literary provenance, but what else can you expect in Washington, where writers are never held in high regard, and where they learn to live without Vitamin P—i.e., praise...
...WP The American Spectator's Advisory Group and Washington Club are associations of fmancial supporters who contribute $1,000 or more annually to the American Spectator Educational Foundation in support of the general operating overhead of the magazine and its intern programs...
...Of our regular monthly columnists, Tom Bethell hasn't missed an issue in nearly fifteen years, a record second only to Bob Tyrrell's...
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...James Bowman, a Floridian who spent the better part of the last two decades in England, is now working for the British press out of Washington and as our regular movie critic, replacing the distinguished Bruce Bawer...
...In the past year more than a hundred individuals contributed to the magazine, ranging in experience from former President Richard Nixon to our editorial intern Mark Miller, who is now with the Washington Times...
...Special thanks, too, to Kenneth Lynn, George Gilder, John Simon, Tbm Wolfe, Charlotte Allen, Aram Bakshian, Hugh Kenner, Adrian Karatnycky, Arch Puddington, John Train, Mark Falcoff, Doug Bandow, Edward Norden, Charles Homer, Frank Rocca, David Frum, Terry Jeffrey, Richard Brookhiser, Rick Marin, Lauren Weiner, Roger Starr, Steve Munson, Phil Terzian, Bill 'Ricker, John Dunlap, Franz Oppenheimer, Tim Ferguson, Stephen Schwartz, Hastings Wyman, Peter Hanna-ford, and Jeremy Rabkin...
...Anne Dwell and Nikki Gibbs, staying up late Susan Kristol greets Judge & Mrs...
...Jack Kemp, secretary of housing and urban development...
...Roving correspondent Micah Morrison has traveled the globe for us this past year, reporting from South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Nashville, Tennessee, and filing a memorable story on the plight of Kuwaiti refugees...
...On concluding his remarks...
...Their work is probably the most difficult of all, and I just want to salute them for their lonely labors, dedication, and friendship...
...The following is adapted from Mr...
...For more information on how you can join, attend parties, partake in camaraderie of like-minded people while enjoying free booze, high cholesterol food, cigarettes, cigars, and all the other evil stuff that the federal government wants to suppress, write: Ronald E. Burr, The American Spectator, P.O...
...Pleszczynski's tribute to our writers (photo opposite): I '11 start with a Washington story...
...Our national correspondent Victor Gold has kept us both entertained and wistful for a time when politics was a red-meat affair...
...Which brings me to Robert Novak, whose review of Men at Work for us demonstrated that it is both fashionable and desirable to praise George Will in a conservative publication...
...Michael Ledeen's astute and sober eye has kept us from falling for Gorby, not that the urge was ever strong...
...Cathy Young, a native of Moscow and a graduate of Rutgers, has founded her own column, Soviet Presswatch, which is must reading if not exactly optimistic reading these days...
...He found it in an essay by Joseph Epstein, which means I'm passing it on to you third-hand...
...tossed off Paul Wellstone jokes and introduced speakers Father James Higgins of Martinsville, Indiana, Charlton Heston, TAS Publisher Ronald E. Burr, TAS Managing Editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, and the evening's keynote orator, the Hon...
...William McGurn, National Review's man in Washington...
...Shortly before Christmas, at a meeting arranged by Rep...
...For Tailgunner Joe's next birthday, P. J. promises a brand-new list featuring the names of prominent Iraqis mixed in with those of anti-war conservatives, CNN reporters, and Jordanians who appeared on "Nightline...
...Tonight, let's make an exception...
...They ranged geographically from Maurice Cranston in Great Britain to Robert Stove in Australia to Piotr Brozyna and Anne Applebaum in Poland to the one and only Ben Stein in Malibu to Joe Qu and Joe Mysak in downtown New York to Dave Shiflett in Denver, Colorado, to Susan Kristol in McLean, Virginia, to Elizabeth Kristol in Washington, D.C., to Dick Armey and Robert Kasten on Capitol Hill to Jim Pinkerton in the White House...
...Thanks to the generosity of the Bradley Foundation, we were able to send reporters to a number of hot spots, including German-speaking George Szamuely to a reunifying Germany, Thomas Mallon to San My Hanh Burr, Charlton Heston, and Ronald Burr (Who's the mugger in the background...
...Finally, let me thank the finest proofreader in existence, Jenny Woodward...
...Christopher Cox, Chris Caldwell and I presented a copy of the issue with Mr...
...Together with our writers, she makes mine the easiest reading jobin Washington...
...Longtime contributor Fred Barnes provides political analysis that sends conservatives up walls and back to the drawing board...
...I thank all of them, named and unnamed...
...A friend recently told me that I should begin my talk by quoting Thomas Mann, who said that the one thing a writer can't get enough of is Vitamin P. My friend didn't come across this quote while actually reading Mann (which around here presumably is only done at the German embassy...
...As the correspondence section of our March issue suggests, Ralph Nader has yet to recover from the job Robert England did on him in our September issue...
...Kemp presented the first annual American Spectator/Libertad Free Expression Award to Peter Kalikow, publisher of the New York Post...
...As we honor and thank our generous supporters and celebrate another year of publication, let's not overlook the writers whose contributions to our pages ultimately make or break each issue that we publish...
...I can report that he giggled softly when he saw the jackbooted Soviet soldier in the cover drawing...
...In November, P. J. commemorated Joe McCarthy's birthday with a new installment of the New Enemies List...
...Valiunas's piece to visiting Lithuanian president Vytautas Landsbergis...
...Quentin and later to the Rhode Island senatorial race, Andrew Ferguson to Louisiana for a definitive portrait of David Duke, facelift and all, Martha Bayles to a National Association of Scholars conference that helped launch a campus war against the politically correct thinking even liberal publications can no longer stomach (incidentally, Martha's review of Stanley Crouch's book, Notes of a Hanging Judge, was the best thing of its kind), and, finally, Algis Valiunas to Lithuania...
...National Review's Washington bureau chief William McGurn found time during one of his frequent trips to East Asia to file a major story from his favorite spot in the world—Manila—on the foreign aid scandals in the Philippines...
...Though it seems each time David squishes a Larry Agran, a Paul Wellstone pops up...
...Drawing on his unique experience as a former newspaper editor and government spokesman, Terry Eastland in his insiderish Presswatch maintains the high standards established by his predecessors Michael Ledeen, Fred Barnes, and John O'Sullivan...
...Robert Bork...
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