Notebook: Art of Language
393 views · Published 30 September 2009 · 1:08 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: CBS News · 2009 · News & Politics
A speech writer for Richard Nixon, conservative columnist William Safire has died at the age of 79. In our era of widespread abbreviations and slang, Katie Couric praises Safire, a master of diction.
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