When William Safire left the Nixon White House to hold forth on the op-ed page of the New York Times, many readers reacted with disbelief, as if an intruder were defiling their liberal temple. After ...

Most newspaper reporters would really rather be columnists, free to pontificate instead of chasing down quotes. So why does New York Times pundit William Safire want to be remembered as a reporter?

William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury ...

William Safire receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W. Bush (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 15, 2006. Safire, the former Richard Nixon ...

I was sorry to hear the news yesterday of William Safire’s death. His “On Language” column was as much a part of Sunday for me as watching football. My colleague, Kilian Schalk, reminds me that Safire ...

William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columnist for The New York Times for 32 years, speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon, and chronicler of the popular lexicon in his weekly column, ...

New York — Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed ...

“I hope you have a notebook where you take down anecdotes,” William Safire told me the first time we met. I muttered something about how, on Bill Clinton’s speechwriting team, we had several ...

William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist, Nixon speechwriter and language connoisseur, died yesterday at a Maryland hospice after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 79. A ...

The call came in to the newsroom at 5 a.m. -- and the caller was desperate. "I live in a nursing home and I need someone to please investigate this place,” the woman cried. “It is so bad…Please, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer ...