Why Safire Is Loved

From this weekend’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me” on NPR:

PETER SAGAL: Now, you went off, you left the Nixon White House. You became a conservative op-ed writer for the New York Times.

WILLIAM SAFIRE: Right, I was the resident right winger there.

SAGAL: Yes. And did they always make you sit by yourself at the company picnics, or did you, were you welcome?

SAFIRE: It was a little lonely there for a while. But then I did go to a picnic, and one of the kids for one of the reporters fell in the pool.

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