The Resume

(April 28, 1939- )
Born in Chicago, Illinois
White House correspondent for the Chicago Sun-Times (1974-77)
Executive editor of ‘New Republic’ (1977-85)
Washington bureau chief of ‘Newsweek’ (1985-91)
Editor and columnist for ‘Roll Call’ (1991-2011)
Panelist for ‘The McLaughlin Group’ (1982-98)
With Fred Barnes, co-hosted ‘The Beltway Boys’ (1998-2009)
Cameo appearances in ‘Dave’ (1993) and ‘Independence Day’ (1996)

Why he might be annoying:

He wrote a ‘New Republic’ editorial headlined ‘John Anderson Can Win.’ (After the 1980 election, he admitted, ‘That was totally off the wall.’)
He was an alcoholic during the 1980s.
He predicted Ronald Reagan’s re-election would bring about ‘depression, social chaos and war.’
His initial response to ‘The McLaughlin Group’ was, ‘This isn’t going to last – people shouting and screaming at each other?’

Why he might not be annoying:

He served in the Army’s counter-intelligence corps while attending graduate school.
He is a board member of the Parkinson’s Action Network and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s. (His first wife Millicent died of Parkinson’s in 2004.)
He won the Washington Post’s Crystal Ball Tournament for political pundits by correctly predicting a Democratic takeover of Congress (2006).

Credit: C. Fishel

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In 2023, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying