Today is Jim Lehrer’s seventy-eighth birthday. 1934 was a very good year.
I know Mr. Lehrer in the same way that most people know him. I have never met
him, but he seems a friend. My introduction to him was by way of the
McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. Over time it became PBS NewsHour hosted by Jim
Lehrer. Then I read one of his memoirs, I think A Bus of My Own. I graduated
to his fiction and sailed through numerous stories created by his fertile mind.
I believe he has published twenty or more novels. I think, though, that he
would consider himself a serious journalist first, and a novelist by avocation.
Then certainly everyone who cares a whit about our country and its
leadership has seen Mr. Lehrer in his role as moderator of Presidential debates,
for he has become the constant in those interchanges, and he has been called the
Dean of Moderators.
He seems a fair-minded man.
Happy birthday, Sir. You have shared your talents with us, and we
appreciate your efforts.
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5 comments:
We were discussing Jim Lehrer and his contributions around the table last evening, and we did not know his birthday was coming up. Fine journalist!
I did not know he wrote fiction. A happy birthday to him~
Vee, I believe that is called a coincidence.
Shelly, a man of many parts, one might say.
I don't know much about him- just heard the name.
Shark, we all travel different paths, know different people.
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