James Reston — American Journalist born on November 03, 1909, died on December 06, 1995

James Barrett Reston, nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with The New York Times... (wikipedia)

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.