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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Question on Millions of Tongues The current Tea Party craze does not fit very easily into the history of American populism. Populist movements...

The Legacy of Al Haig (January 2010)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Legacy of Al Haig General Alexander Haig, who died on February 20, carved out his place in history as the one who negotiated President Richard M....

It's Time to Restore Majority Rule (May 2009)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr It’s Time to Restore Majority Rule. . . Beating back the effort to undermine the 60-member block needed to fend off a filibuster against the...

Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma (September 2009)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma President Barack Obama’s prob lem in Afghanistan, as one observer put it, is that he has to commit money and...

Lesson of the First 100 Days (March 2009)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Lesson of the First 100 Days The first 100-day sprint by a President that I can remember was Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Faced with the crushing Great...

Obama's Pragmatic Foreign Policy (January 2009)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Obama’s Pragmatic Foreig n Policy Returning from her first official trip abroad, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was greeted by her first...

An Age of Anxiety (November 2008)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr An Age of Anxiety In 1996, near the end of the 20th century, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned us against “irrational exuberance.”...

A Major Issue for the New Congress (September 2008)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A MajorIssue for the New Congress In a Wall Street Journal-NBC poll last July, 53 per cent of the respondents said they want government to do more to...

'Don't Get Sick in America' (May 2009)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr ‘Don’t Get Sick in America’ My book on health care, Don’t Get Sick in America, says that with medical expenditures at $63 billion a year and headed...

Iran's End-Run in Iraq (March 2008)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Iran’s End-Run in Iraq In its Standoff with Iran, the Administration has been raising the temperature to a point where one begins to wonder what it has...

From McCain to Bush (January 2008)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr From McCain to Bush Following is a letter Senator John McCain, the likely Republican standard bearer, might have—I repeat, might have—sent to President...

The President and the Law (November 2007)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The President and the Law It Is Now emerging, through documents and leaks, that the controversy over the country’s torture policy has been going on at...

Lies as an Instrument of Governing (September 2007)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Lies as an Instrument of Governing Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure in office was a tissue of deception and evasion, found a way...

Bye-Bye Bush (August 2007)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bye-Bye Bush Forall practical purposes, President Bush’s tenure can be said to have ended, even though he will not leave office until January 20,...

Bush: Conned or Con Man? (March 2007)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush: Conned or Con Man? During His Spring Break, President George W. Bush may have reflected on Elisabetta Burba and her version of what helped to propel...

Democratic Smoke Signals (January 2007)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Democratic Smoke Signals “WATCH OUR SMOKE in the first 100 hours,” said the victorious Congressional Democrats, setting a closer goal line than any I...

Bush in Decline (November 2005)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush in Decline As George W. Bush approached the end of his fifth year in office, his standing with Americans seemed to be steadily eroding. In...

Bush's Autumn of Discontent (September 2005)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush's Autumn of Discontent At his October 4 news conference, President George W. Bush was asked how much was left of the political capital he had said he...

Changing Course in Iraq (July 2005)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Changing Course in Iraq It feels a little like the summer of 2002, when White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded to rumors of a coming invasion of...

After D-Day in D.C. (May 2005)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr After D-Day in D.C. D-Day-Deep Throat Day-has come and gone; slowly the capital is adjusting itself to life without its longest-running mystery. President...

Dismembering Social Security (March 2005)

Washington Notebook By Danlel Schorr Dismembering Social Security On his 60-day, 60-stop Social Security blitz, President George W. Bush has tended to emphasize solvency. But in the more...

Bush's Very Different Tone (February 2005)

Washington Notebook By Danlel Schorr Bush's Very Different Tone The February 2 State of the Union address had been billed as mainly domestic, focusing on Social Security reform. But its...

Fashioning a New Legacy (November 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Fashioning a New Legacy "The first order of business is to build multilateral institutions." "America always prefers to work with allies at our...

The Campaign as Spectator Sport (September 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Campaign as Spectator Sport With the campaign in its final stretch, something is happening out there where the people are. It is not only that...

Bush's Trump Card (July 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush's Trump Card "We are a nation in danger," said President George W. Bush starkly. He was appearing with his top security aides in the Rose Garden on...

What Reagan Left Us (May 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr What Reagan Left Us He gave his name to a Washington airport, to an international trade building, to a mountain in New Hampshire. And there will be...

Still, 'What about Iraq?' (March 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Still,'What about Iraq?' As boxing fans might say, "They never laid a glove on her." After the fever pitch of anticipation generated by the original...

Iraq's 'Vortex of Corruption' (January 2004)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Iraq's 'Vortex of Corruption' David a. Kay, the former chief of the U.S. arms inspection team in Iraq, has said he does not believe President George W....

Next Stop for Saddam (November 2003)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Next Stop for Saddam In hailing the end of a "dark and painful era" in Iraq, with the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, President George W. Bush...

Misusing the CIA (September 2003)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Misusing the CIA The flap over the "outing" of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Piarne, wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson iy has...

A Sense of Being Lied To (July 2003)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A Sense of Being Lied To "We live at a time when the harm done to trust can be seen firsthand. Confidence in public officials and in professionals...

The Liberation That Went Sour (May 2003)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Liberation That Went Sour Across a wide swath of Islamic nations, anti-Western violence is spreading like SARS. Suicide bombings show...

Bush's Class Warfare (January 2003)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush's Class Warfare President George W. Bush, defending his tax cut proposal against what he calls "class warfare," takes me back to the 1930s when...

After Saddam, What? (November 2002)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr After Saddam, What? Saddam Hussein's ambition to dominate the Middle East required weapons of mass destruction. His own survival may require for...

The Bush Timetable (September 2002)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Bush Timetable Anybody around here remember UNMovic, or the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission? It replaced...

The Outrage Sweepstakes (July 2002)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Outrage Sweepstakes Call it the politics of outrage. In the 1996 Presidential campaign Republican challenger Robert Dole got nowhere asking "Where...

Selective Security (May 2002)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Selective Security It has been revealed that the Bush Administration had greater awareness of a terrorist threat before last September 11 than it let on....

Thinking About the Unthinkable (March 2002)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Thinking About the Unthinkable More than a decade after the collapse of Communism, the United States was still looking for an organizing principle to...

Tiptoeing in the Mideast Minefield (November 2001)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Tiptoeing in the Mideast Minefield The speech Secretary of State Colin L. Powell delivered November 19 at the University of Louisville had long...

Pressing Questions (July 2001)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Pressing Questions There comes a time when a commentator has no answers, only questions. Will President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir V...

The Politics of Principle (May 2001)

Washingtot Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Politics of Principle Placing principle above party is a fairly infrequent event in American political life. For some of the more famous Senate...

Bush's Business Administration (March 2001)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush's Business Administration Our first MBA President is apparently out to be the master of a business administration. With Vice President Dick Cheney...

Bush II: Reality vs. DREAMS (January 2001)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush II: Reality vs.Dreams Call it principle vs. civility. Call it partisan reality vs. bipartisan dreams. The early signs from the Bush II...

One Nation... Divided (November 2000)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr One Nation... Divided It seems clear that the country's strident postelection battle, hinging on a few hundred of the over 100 million votes cast, will...

When Veeps Go Solo (September 2000)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr When Veeps Go Solo One of the more fascinating rites of our constitutional democracy is the transfer of political leadership from the incumbent...

Supreme Justice (July 2000)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Supreme Justice Dwight D. Eisenhower, when asked to recall his biggest mistake while he was President, is supposed to have said, "I made two, and they're...

Nuclear Politics (May 2000)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Nuclear Politics In the twilight of their White House days, most recent Presidents have looked forward to that last big-power summit and the chance for a...

To Debate or Not to Debate (March 2000)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr To Debate or Not to Debate You remember, of course, the first ever Presidential debate. No, not Lincoln-Douglas—that was for U.S. Senator. It was...

Television and the Wall (November 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Television and the Wall The 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, was cause for a great international celebration— and...

The Price of Freedom in East Timor (September 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Price of Freedom in East Timor Burning, looting, killing, kidnapping, and raping as they withdrew, the Indonesian military left a devastated...

Nixon 25 Years later (August 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Nixon 25 Years Later Thoughts on the August 9 anniversary of Richard M. Nixon's resignation: Maybe I needed 25 years to get over being listed as an...

Insuring the Health Insurers (July 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Insuring the Health Insurers In 1991 Democrat Harris Wofford won an upset victory in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race, in large part by emphasizing the...

Yeltsin as the 'Vozhd' (May 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Yeltsin as the 'Vozhd' Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin exhibited the 1 Oth of his nine lives May 15, beating impeachment in the Duma on a series of...

Assessing the War in KOSOVO (April 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Assessing the War in Kosovo Did the United States and its allies miscalculate on Kosovo? Let me count the ways. First, last October, when special...

Waiting for the Inevitable (January 1999)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Waiting for the Inevitable Barring an unanticipated bombshell, neither the impressive performance by quarterback defense counsel Charles F. C. Ruff and...

Government by Investigation (November 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Government by Investigation The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry may have done some harm to President Bill Clinton's prestige, but it...

Politics of the Tin Ear (October 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Politics of the Tin Ear CALL it the politics of the tin ear or the self-inflicted wound. In an age of pervasive public pulse-taking, the...

Congress in Confusion (September 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Congress in Confusion George Gobel, a favorite television comedian of mine in a past generation, reported one Labor Day evening that fatal accidents on...

Cold Hotlines (June 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Cold Hotlines South Asia's nuclear crisis is beginning to look like a parody of the four decades long Soviet-American nuclear standoff. One hears...

The Problem of Privilege (April 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Problem of Privilege The odds on impeachment, never very great for President Bill Clinton given his high poll ratings, have sunk to near zero...

Personal Problem Compartment (February 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Personal Problem Compartment On Saturday evening, January 17, after his six-hour deposition in the Paula Jones case, President Clinton canceled plans to...

The Other Clinton (January 1998)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Other Clinton At his marathon year-end news conference, where the main concern was still his future policies rather than his alleged paramours,...

Constructive Engagement (November 1997)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Constructive Engagement Maybe Americans were too distracted by stock market gyrations to pay attention to the man from China with the funny...

Reminiscing About Royalty (September 1997)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Reminiscing About Royalty Saint of the Gutters and Saint of the Media: The death of Mother Teresa cast a new light on the Princess Diana frenzy that...

A Clash of Choruses (August 1997)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A Clash of Choruses Never in my memory has such a chorus of bipartisan self-congratulation been met with such a nonpartisan chorus of disbelief. "An...

An American Way of Strife (June 1997)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr An American Way of Strife In barring emotional testimony of the sort that might have turned the Timothy McVeighpenalty hearings into "some kind of...

A Whiff of Watergate (March 1997)

Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A Whiff of Watergate After weeks of twisting in the wind, Anthony Lake withdrew his nomination as Director of Central Intelligence, a victim of the...

Clinton's Politics of Ingratiation (November 1996)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton's Politics of Ingratiation In his 1995 State of the Union address President Bill Clinton came out foursquare against a balanced budget constitutional...

Clinton's Campaign Acrobatics (September 1996)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton's Campaign Acrobatics IN ST LOUIS on September 10, President Bill Clinton told the Southern governors that "we have to prove the skeptics wrong'...

Politicizing the Government (July 1996)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Politicizing the Government IN A KIND of revolution of lowered expectations. President Bill Clinton, at this writing, is managing to retain support from...

Philosophies of Government (May 1996)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Philosophies of Government AT A WHITE HOUSE DINNER to raise funds for a planned memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the protagonist of Federal...

Clinton's Virtuoso Performance (January 1996)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton's Virtuoso Performance AT THE START of Year II, the Republican Thermidorians found their revolution suddenly stalled and President Bill Clinton, the...

Politics by the Book (October 1995)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Politics by the Book FOR MONTHS, the subject that inevitably came up in dinner conversations was O.J. Simpson. Then, for a few days, it was the Baltimore...

Trial by Television (July 1995)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Trial by Television MY FIRST DAY on the job as a CBS Washington correspondent, in 1953, I covered a hearing of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Red-hunting...

Clinton Takes a Vow (May 1995)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton Takes a Vow MAY 17 will be remembered as the day President Bill Clinton personally promised his first veto. His target was the bill rescinding $ 16.4...

Clinton on the High Road (March 1995)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton on the High Road AS THE HUNDRED DAYS of the House Republican Contract With America neared their end, climaxed by passage of a draconian welfare...

The President's Dilemma (January 1995)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Presidents Dilemma ROUGHLY 40 times in his record-long State of the Union address on January 24, President Clinton used the word "new" He spoke of "the...

Middle East Calculations (October 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Middle East Calculations IN MID-OCTOBER, with President Bill Clinton going to the Middle East, it seemed that the closer the region came to peace, the...

Peanut Diplomacy in Haiti (September 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Peanut Diplomacy in Haiti GIVEN THE strong opposition to a Haiti invasion in Congress and among Americans generally, President Bill Clinton was probably...

Clinton's Long Hot Summer (July 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clintons Long Hot Summer I HAVE HAD occasion before to bewail magazine lead time, but never more than this mid-July when Haiti, Rwanda, North Korea, health,...

Demystifier of the Supreme Court (April 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Demystifier of the Supreme Court Harry A. Blackmun, who will be retiring this summer after almost a quarter century on the Supreme Court, is a friend, so I...

Foreign Policy Vexations (February 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Foreign Policy Vexations BOSNIA ... spy scandal ... Hebron. As if Whitewater were not enough to divert President Clinton's attention from domestic renewal,...

Fine-tuning the Presidency (January 1994)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Fine-tuning the Presidency HIS APPROVAL ratings are up, the economy is up and America is at peace with the world, if not with itself. So Bill Clinton, in his...

A Conspiracy of Silences (November 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR A Conspiracy of Silences GENTLE READER, you may by now be surfeited with retrospectives occasioned by the 30th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's...

Clinton's New Buzzword (October 1993)

Clinton's New Buzzword Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The overarching theme of Bill Clinton's Presidential campaign was "change." But, because he found that many Americans fear change,...

Capitol Hill Trophies (September 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Capitol Hill Trophies In September 1992, in Atlanta, Candidate Bill Clinton told voters they had the power to end gridlock and move the country toward change...

The Baghdad Scenario (June 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Baghdad Scenario For President Clinton's initial use of offensive force, a strike at Baghdad represented a well-nigh best-case scenario: It could...

Coping with Bosnia (May 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Coping with Bosnia A sense of lost innocence was palpable when President Clinton, speaking in mid-April of the conflict in Bosnia, said, "It is the most...

Yeltsin Turns to the 'Narod' (May 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Yeltsin Turns to the 'Narod' The failed August 1991 coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and his ouster in December of that year, were part of...

Washington Notebook (January 1993)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR What a Difference a Year Makes! The start of 1993 caused me to temper the expansive global view I expressed at the start of 1992. Then 1 was...

The Long Transition (November 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Long Transition What an oddity the American Presidential transition is! George Bush, in his passive-aggressive period following his defeat,...

Bush's Uphill Campaign (September 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Bush's Uphill Campaign At this writing the Presidential election contest seems to be simmering down to, essentially, a dispirited choice between an incumbent...

The Horror of Bosnia (August 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Horror of Bosnia One picture of a naked, screaming child in flames brought the horror of Vietnam home to Americans. Bosnia was brought home by a widely...

Perot's Nixon Pattern (June 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Perot's Nixon Pattern Some see Harry S. Truman in Ross Perot's homespun, down-to-earth manner. Garry Wills, in the Washington Post, has compared him to Ronald...

Bad News for Pollsters (May 1992)

Washington Notebook Bad News for Pollsters BY DANIEL SCHORR More and more Americans are refusing to respond to opinion pollsters. This is threatening an important industry, and that is serious...

The U-2 Goes Green (March 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The U-2 Goes Green A DEFEFINING moment in history is where you find it. Surely one must be the day the plane designed to spy on the Soviet threat was...

Bush's Buchanan Jitters (February 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Bush's Buchanan Jitters In this season when the nation becomes preoccupied with who will govern it for the next four years, there is reason to be concerned...

The President on a Tightrope (January 1992)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The President on a Tightrope The history of our times seems to be encapsulated in television dramas. Last fall was dominated by the case of Anita F. Hill v....

Bush Bewildered and Dismayed (December 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Bush Bewildered and Dismayed Former Attorney General Dick Thomburgh lost to Senator Harris Wofford in Pennsylvania last month, and David Duke lost to...

The Art of Getting Confirmed (October 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Art of Getting Confirmed It is awesome to contemplate the events that compressed years of change into the weeks since I wrote my prevacation...

Bush on the Home Front (July 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANEL SCHORR Bush on the Home Front Like shorter hemlines, the domestic agenda has been coming back into vogue. Such pillars of the foreign policy establishment as...

The 'Ticker' Ticket Problem (May 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The 'Ticker' Ticket Problem For a while, starting on May 4, the recession, Iraq, Air Sununu, and even the latest Kennedy scandal were put aside as the...

Why Saddam Still Rules (April 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Why Saddam Still Rules The New Order in the Middle East seemed off to a most unpromising start after the victory over Iraq in the six-week air war plus...

On the Way to Victory (February 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR On the Way to Victory Theke must surely be a more important way of demarcating history, but this column falls due with the start of the ground war in...

On the Way to War (January 1991)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR On the Way to War Attentive readers of The New Leader who are also listeners to National Public Radio may have discovered echoes of my daily...

White House Fumbling (October 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR White House Fumbling At the end of the great budget deficit debate, President George Bush and Congress collapsed into each other's arms like...

Washington Notebook (September 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Long on Might, Short on Money For both Presidents George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev it must have been quite a comedown to return from their September...

Washington Notebook (August 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Guns of August As so often, the guns of August came as a surprise. Congress was winding up its work for the summer. President George Bush, receiving...

Kohl's Leveraged Buyout (July 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Kohls Leveraged Buyout It used to be dollar diplomacy that swayed Europe. Now it is D-mark diplomacy, andit works wonders. Hereis a capsule summary of...

Soviet Smoke Signals (April 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Soviet Smoke Signals As the May 30-June 3 summit meeting between Presidents George Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev approached, it seemed that the...

Germany and the Coin of the Realm (March 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Germany and the Coin of the Realm East Germany's first free election on March 18 was probably its last. It was a sort of rehearsal for an...

Playing Catch-up in Europe (February 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Playing Catch-up in Europe President Bush's first State of the Union address could be characterized, on the domestic side, as "Read my lip service."...

Dreaming about Noriega (January 1990)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Dreaming about Noriega Timing and television, as well as politics, can make strange bedfellows. In some surreal kind of counterpoint, Romanian...

What the People Said (November 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR What the People Said President George Bush may not be a great communicator, but he is an impulsive, perhaps even compulsive communicator. "Well,...

Reviving the U.S.-Soviet Dialogue (October 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Reviving the US-Soviet Dialogue After a L??? period of cautious reassessment, President Bush has moved the Soviet-American dialogue back to the fast...

Summer Spy Scoops (August 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Summer Spy Scoops The big bailout of the savings and loan institutions is on and the investigation into the garage sale of the assets of the...

Reacting to China's 'Red Terror' (June 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Reacting to Chinas 'Red Terror' In the brutal crackdown on China's prodemocracy demonstrators launched the weekend of June 3, President George Bush...

Tests for Bush (April 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Tests for Bush The soul of a Presidency is sometimes revealed in its response to an unanticipated emergency. For George Bush, one-time Texas oil man...

The Battered Bush Principles (March 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Battered Bush Principles During his first three days in office President George Bush enunciated three themes: ethics in government, bipartisanship...

A Slow Start for Bush (February 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR A Slow Start for Bush A journalist must be on the qui vive these days. I happened to be driving past the White House on January 27 when I heard on the...

Tackling the Terrorists (January 1989)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Tackling the Terrorists Let terrorists be aware that when the rules of international behavior are violated, our policy will be one of swift...

Washington Notebook (December 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Arafat and the Bush Transition On a visit to Belgrade three years ago, Secretary of State George P. Shultz erupted in anger when Yugoslav Foreign...

Items for the New President's Agenda (November 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Items for the New Presidents Agenda Several events that occurred shortly before the election suggest items that shouldbeonthe agenda of our new...

Washington Notebook (October 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Etching the Candidates A striking feature of this Presidential election year has been the weak allegiances to the candidates. On September 24, the...

Quayl's Sel-Portrait (September 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Quayle's Self-Portrair A word about the Quayle affair before it becomes an asterisk. There are not many standards in politics anymore, but it seems to...

Washington Notebook (June 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Focus in Moscow The primary race lies behind us, the Presidential race looms ahead, and here I am still ruminating about the ReaganGorbachev...

Washington Notebook (May 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Getting Ready for the Summit Preparations for the May 29 summit in Moscow have not been going smoothly. While Secretary of State George ? Shultz was...

Washington Notebook (April 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Meese Crisis Question in a not so trivial quiz: What do Kurt Waldheim, General Manuel Antonio Noriega and Edwin Meese III have in common? Answer:...

Washington Notebook (March 1988)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Reagan Without a Script On February 24, President Reagan held his first news conference in four months and, if his aides have their way, his last for a...

Washington Notebook (February 1998)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR What Bush Would Rather The start of this (more or less) monthly column tends to be influenced by matters in the public eye at the moment of writing....

The Public Image of Public Figures (November 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Public Image of Public Figures "The controversy over my Supreme Court nomination [along with other events] created the impression of an...

Washington Notebook (October 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR On the Bork Front It was a most un-Washington thing that Judge Robert H. Bork did when he refused to leave the stage after he could see the curtain was...

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Reagans De Facto Détente Of the many surprises in the autumn of this Presidency, one of the greatest has been the emergence of a de facto Reagan detente...

Lessons for the President (August 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Lessons for the President The Congressional inquiry into the Iran-contra affair came to the end of its road (as far as public hearings were concerned)...

The Iran-Contra Hearings Halfway (June 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Iran-Contra Hearings Halfway In 1950, the dawn of Congressional trial by television, gangster Frank Costello walked out of a Senate hearing...

April's Spy Scare (April 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR April's Spy Scare In 1968 I was in Prague when Soviet, East German and even Polish tanks occupied Czechoslovakia to stamp out the budding...

The On-Site Factor (March 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The On-Site Inspection Factor Maybe people who live in glasnost houses shouldn't throw stones. Nonetheless, Soviet Party General Secretary Mikhail S....

Washington Notebook (February 1987)

Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR McFarlane's Folly When RobertC. McFarlane was asked before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 16 whether he had worried about being...

The Wayward Academics (December 1986)

The Wayward Academics The Media Elite: America's New Powerbrokers By S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Linda S. Lichter Adler & Adler. 342 pp. $19.95. Impact: How the Press Affects Federal...

Purgative for POWCII (May 1984)

Purgative for Powell_ The Other Side of the Story By Jody Powell Morrow. 322 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Daniel Schorr Correspondent, Cable News Network "How do you respond to those who say your...

Why Haig Quit (June 1982)

BEYOND AD HOMINEM Why BY DANIEL SCHORR One might have thought they were describing a disturbed child. Al threw tantrums. Al banged the table. Al spoke loudly among soft-spoken people. Nancy...

Without Cloaks or Daggers (June 1978)

Writers & Writing WITHOUT CLOAKS OR DAGGERS by daniel schorr That old gray memoir, she ain't what she used to be. The cool twilight recollection of ancient battles has been replaced-at least on...

A Tale Told by an Innocent (December 1975)

A Tale Told by an Innocent Game Plan for Disaster By Clark Mollenhoff Norton. 384 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Daniel Schorr CBS News, Washington Investigative reporters, to coin a generality, do...

Revising the Record (May 1975)

Revising the Record Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon By Theodore H. White Atheneum. 373 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Daniel Schorr CBS News, Washington Some phrase like "past shock" is...

The Tapes as Literature (May 1974)

zThe Tapes as Literature Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon Government Printing Office....

Shadowing the Press (February 1972)

THE 'SCHORR-FBI' STORY Shadowing the Press BY DANIEL SCHORR On Friday, August 20, 1971, at about 10 AM, an agent of the FBI appeared without prior appointment at the Washington offices of CBS...

Always on the Air (December 1969)

Always on the Air PRIME TIME: THE LIFE OF EDWARD R. MURROW By .Alexander Kendrick Little, Brown. 548 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by DANIEL SCHORR cbs News, Washington Everyone who associated with him...

Behind Nixon's Welfare Showdown (August 1969)

WASHINGTON-U.S.A. Behind Nixon's Welfare Showdown By Daniel Schorr Washington In coming months and perhaps years, it will be debated whether President Nixon's plan for welfare reform represents...

The Politics of Welfare (May 1969)

THE CHOICES FACING NIXON The Politics of Welfare By Daniel Schorr Washington Add fss to abm as initials that stir emotions in Washington. Except that in the case of fss, the initials appear only...

Hard Facts of Television Journalism (May 1967)

Hard Facts of Television Journalism due to circumstances beyond our control By Fred W. Friendly Random House. 325 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by daniel schorr CBS News, Washington A cbs News...

Erhard: Germany's Unwilling Politician (June 1966)

A PROFILE Erhard: Germany's Unwilling Politician By Daniel Schorr Bonn The scene on the dais as the ballots were counted in the uncontested election for the new party chairman was...

The Dispirit of Geneva (August 1965)

'CHARGING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION' The Dispirit of Geneva By Daniel Schorr GENEVA It was symptomatic that the Disarmament Conference, after a 10-month break, reassembled on July 27 not with the...

Gheorghiu-Dej: a Reminiscence (April 1965)

CHANGE OF THE GUARD IN RUMANIA Gheorghiu-Dej:a Reminiscence By Daniel Schorr "I have spoken to you frankly," said Gheorghe Gheorghiu- Dej, a friendly hand on my shoulder, last September 17, as we...

2. The Deceptive Mood: (July 1961)

By Daniel Schorr 2. The Deceptive Mood West Berlin If Nikita Khrushchev, in general's uniform and all, had come walking down the Kurfuerstendamm early this month, there is some...

Budapest Revisited: (June 1961)

Almost five years have passed since the October 1956 revolution in HUNGARY and the uprising in POLAND. SATELLITE Here we present two articles describing the present mood of the people in these...

After the Visit: Khrushchev's 'Hard Sell' (October 1959)

After the Visit–Two Articles KHRUSHCHEV'S 'HARD SELL' By Daniel Schorr Daniel Schorr, Columbia Broadcasting System foreign correspondent, followed the career of Communism's top salesman at first...

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