Volume 44, Number 10 · June 12, 1997
On Murray Kempton (1917–1997)
By David Remnick
Murray Kempton wrote about eleven thousand newspaper columns in his time, and, like all practitioners of the trade, he devoted a fair percentage of them to the deflation of the pompous and the unmasking of the fake. Early in the campaign of 1992, he determined Bill Clinton to be a disappointment to integrity and the Democratic Party, and so Murray moved toward his Maker still sticking fine pins in the President's bloviated self-esteem; it was with a healing smile that one read of Bill and Hillary's declaration to the wire services of their heartfelt sadness at his passing.
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