My strongest memory of Daniel Schorr

[Stuart G]

It was during the Watergate Hearings. There was a pause in the action, and if I recall I was watching ABC News. The reporter there was reading a story about the enemies list that Nixon had compiled. It was live TV and the three networks were covering it.. gavel to gavel. My guess is it was 1973. Sam Donaldson was reading the names of those Nixon had put on the "enemies list", and there were the usual liberals and Democrats. The hearings had gone on for a while, and it was kinda endless. Would anything really exciting happen? Would they ever get those crooks in the White House? So Donaldson was reading these so called enemies, and then he says, "Daniel Schorr"..SO>>>

I immediately switch to CBS News, and there is Daniel Schorr reading the same story. Evidently they got to this a little later than ABC, so Schorr was giving background info on the story then he began reading the list. He gets to his own name, he looked up for a split second, and looked into the camera, gave a look to the camera that says..something I cannot say..and he went on reading. It was a moment that I will never forget. Schorr, reading his own name on Nixon's Enemies List on live TV.

In the late 90s I wrote him a letter telling him this story. I was proud to witness that moment in history.

[aquart]

1. I watched the Watergate Hearings.

And now that you remind me I do remember that Schorr's name was on the list. I don't think I took in, at the time, what a shocker that was to media people.

[Stuart G]

2. He was at NPR the day the took the count on Clinton's impeachment in the Senate.

I was listening to that too...
But can you imagine reading your own name on a list that the President had compilied on people to "get"
That is what Nixon was all about.

[BonnieJW]

3. I remember that.

When my husband and I were first married, he and his family were staunch repubs. His family remained so until the day they died, but Watergate was the beginning of the end for my husband. After having three daughters, the change was complete and never again would he lean right.