Politics: Then and Now – A Reflection on the 70s
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'American Typewriter'; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} I wrote this essay 30 years ago, and it still...
View ArticleRIP Wally McNamee, Our Pal
There are some people who you always know you can count on, no matter what. They are not necessarily your best friend. You may not see them for a day, a month, or a year. But you know they are always...
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The Passage of Watergate Time
John and Maureen Dean at the Watergate hearings, 1973 ©2018 JeanPierre Laffont Fans of this page (both of you!) will recall how this reporter’s view of recent history is colored, overall, by a...
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a Christmas Eve story…
About four years ago I received a message from my agency office that someone had called, and was inquiring about somehow getting a print of a picture I did Christmas Eve 1970 – an improbable forty...
View ArticleSt. Vanguard’s Day, 2019
61 years ago. I can’t believe it. Who, amongst people I know, has any memory of something in 1958? Well I guess if you’re from the high school class of ’64, there are a lot of things which you...
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a Bad Trip…. They Just Keep Getting Badder Sometimes
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #252525} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Today was a traveling nightmare. It began with a trip to Middletown to buy peanuts. Peanuts...
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A DMZ Christmas 50 Years Ago
Back in the early 1960s, in the wake of Sputnik and such fanciful terms as “the Space Race,” the “Missile Gap,” and Pupnik (Sputnik 2 carried a little Russian terrier named Laika), and, in the words...
View ArticleFifty Years On…
I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’ Last fall was fifty years: I arrived in Vietnam in October 1970 following a two year stint freelancing for TIME in DC and...
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We’re Just Sayin
While this has become known as the Holiday Season, for a Jewish kid who grew up in the very Mormon outpost of Salt Lake City, we pretty much knew it as the Christmas Season, with Hannukah and a few...
View ArticleWe're Just Sayin 2022-02-13 16:54:00
Its crazy: i cant get past feb 10th without some reminder that this is the day, 51 years ago… (impossible to actually write that number and believe it could be me..) that I was fruitlessly trying to...
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