Sunday Morning Comin’ Down

The "Have a definite opinion. " edition. RIP William Safire : William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79 William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the fam...

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