War and Politics by Other Means: A Journalist's Memoir

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Family portrait, Easter Sunday, I939. Back row (I-r): Busy Bee, her husband, Manlis, and A. D. (Addie) Ross; below them: Jerry and John Lee. The rest, all in white, are cousin Kay, brother George, sister Martha, and (the palest) me. Addie, as usual, shows an attitude. Grandmother Victoria Tamms Scates (right), honored on her eighty-fifth birthday by the Leonidas K. Polk Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at a formal tea. Union City, Tennessee, ca. I 939. These Israeli troops are about to enter mortal combat to capture the West Bank of the Jordan River from the Hashemite Kingdom ofJordan, June I, I967. Much talk, but little change in territory since then. Photo: UPI Oval Office, Air Force One, March 4, I968. The press pool: (l-r) Sam Donaldson, ABC; Syd Davis, Group W; Robert Pierpont, CBS; Barbara Furlong, US News; Henry Hubbard, Newsweek; Dick Dudman, St. Louis Post Dispatch; John Pierson, Wall Street Journal; George Packard, Philadelphia Bulletin; Al Sullivan, USIA; Carroll Kilpatrick, Washington Post; Shelby Scates, Hearst News. Three weeks later President Johnson (addressing Packard) threw in the towel. ... Ambassador Richard Parker, one ofour best, and me in the garden ofmy home-away-from-home in Jerusalem, the American Colony Hotel. ... Coming up for air from a steel-reinforced bunker along the Suez Canal, part of the Bar Lev line, the front in the War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt. The air outside is about II5 degrees and fraught with steel. Inside it's cool and safe. The straight scoop from Representatives Dave (Checkers) Cecceralli, King Lysen, and Bob Perry (back to camera), Washington State Legislature, I97I . Perry would vanish, then come back alive a few years later to tell his tale ofa Capitol fix. ~ Jimmy Carter's last hurrah. Seattle campaign rally in a Boeing hangar the night before the I980 general election. Senator Henry Jackson, meeting the press, has privately informed two of us that it's all over: Carter will lose the White House to Ronald Reagan. That explains the expression on my face. (Photo: Seattle Post-Intelligencer) ~ On top ofMount Rainier, a memorial to the assassinated Bobby Kennedy, July I968.: (l-r) Jim Whittaker, Kennedy's I968 state campaign chairman; Joan Hansen, Seattle attorney; and me. Windy Gap, 22,000 feet, at the China-Pakistan border, August I978, with K2, the top of the Karakoram, in the background. Below to the right: China's Sinkiang Province. Photo: Craig Anderson ~ Camp One, K2 at I9,OOO feet, the world's highest wire service to Hearst News, New York, via VHF transmission to Skardu, telegraph to Islamabad, UP! wires to New York. I filed daily. Sometimes the report even got there. ~ Exhausted at I7,OOO feet, Mount McKinley, after a 3,ooo-foot struggle. "I feel old, tired, and cold," said Stirn Bullitt (right). So did I. Photo: Bill Sumner Be it ever so humble, Camp One, K2. Bill Sumner designed the twin-peaked tent nestled beneath the mountain. Photo: Bill Sumner