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Another obit:  Lawyer-turned-journalist Fred Graham, long of CBS News, has died.  He was 88 years old, and, according to his wife, had suffered for years from Parkinson's disease.



I remember him well, especially during the Nixon years when he covered Watergate and the investigations.  He also worked for the New York Times and was a founding journalist for CourtTV.

More:


Graham, the son of a Presbyterian preacher, attended a small elementary school in Texarkana, Arkansas; high school in Nashville, Tennessee; and Yale on a scholarship. After several years in the Marine Corps, in Japan and Korea, he earned a law degree at Vanderbilt while working as a reporter at The Tennessean.

Graham attended Oxford University as a Fulbright scholar. Then he returned to Nashville and worked as a lawyer before Sen. Estes Kefauver brought him to Washington to work as chief counsel of a Senate subcommittee. Graham later served as an aide to Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz.

The New York Times was looking for a replacement for its Supreme Court reporter and chose Graham, launching his long career in legal journalism. After moving to CBS News in 1972, Graham worked there until 1987, when the network was cutting staff and did not renew his contract. He returned to Nashville to work at a local television station. But his absence from national news didn’t last long.
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I will believe it when I see it about repealing the WEP.  All lip service, with nobody ever getting any bill out of committee.
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