For a hundred years, for better or worse, no institution has played a larger role in American culture and politics. And no corporation with comparable clout has been continuously controlled by a single family since 1896.
This month, at 69, Arthur Sulzberger Jr will retire as company chairman, after decades of speculation that he would be the last Sulzberger to run the business.
In 2005, a vicious profile in the New Yorker asked: “Can Arthur Sulzberger Jr save the Times – and himself?” A couple of years later, Vanity Fair declared that he had “steered his inheritance into a ditch”.
As the New Yorker editor, David Remnick, put it to the Guardian this week: “As recently as five years ago, the biggest question was: “Is [Mike] Bloomberg going to own the Times or [Mexican billionaire] Carlos Slim?”
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max frankel asked whether the united states was accepting of soviet domination of eastern europe. there is no soviet domination of eastern europe, and there never will be under a ford administration. i m sorry, could i just did i understand you to say, sir, that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own sphere of influence? everybody s jaw just dropped. are you alive? are you aware? what he meant to say was, i will not accept any soviet domination of eastern europe. governor carter, can we have your response? charitably it was a momentary slip. maybe we do need to replace the president. ford had never lost an
reagan s supporters staged a demonstration on the convention floor. and it went on and on and on and on. by the end of that convention, it s clear that although gerald ford may be the nominee, ronald reagan won the hearts and minds of conservatives. reagan did great damage to ford. look at the poll numbers. you will see jimmy carter starts surging, over 30 points ahead of gerald ford. ford had a weak position in the national race. so he challenged jimmy carter to a debate. mr. president, i would like to explore a little more deeply our relationship with the russians. max frankel asked ford a question about whether the
reagan s supporters staged a demonstration on the convention floor. and it went on and on and on and on. by the end of that convention, it s clear that although gerald ford may be the nominee, ronald reagan won the hearts and minds of conservatives. reagan did great damage to ford. look at the poll numbers. you will see jimmy carter starts surging, over 30 points ahead of gerald ford. ford had a weak position in the national race. so he challenged jimmy carter to a debate. mr. president, i would like to explore a little more deeply our relationship with the russians. max frankel asked ford a question about whether the united states was accepting of soviet domination of eastern europe.
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