RSSPulitzer winner William Safire dead at 79
From: The Washington Times | September 27, 2009
William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and a former speechwriter for President Nixon, died Sunday of cancer. He was 79. A veteran of contentious political bouts that littered the news media marketplace for more than three decades, Mr. Safire was a self-described libertarian conservative who wielded lyrical prose, acerbic humor and canny political insight with unrelenting regularity in his syndicated Op-Ed “Essay” and “On Language,” published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He produced more than 3,000 columns and became a fixture, a destination for readers who relished the pundit and punster, an elegant …
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