Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MarkLeibovich Actually, for those scoring at home, it was Calvin Coolidge's predecessor Samuel McCall. Aren't you glad that you know that? — PolitiTweet.org

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Sound familiar? In October 1918, at the height of the influenza crisis, the governor of Massachusetts said, “We are getting very little encouragement to expect help from the outside. The other states have many demands at home for their nurses and doctors.” https://t.co/3IM7i6sWYz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MrWalterShapiro: I read the newspapers for a single day at the height of the 1918 pandemic. And what I saw was a chilling reminder that… — PolitiTweet.org

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@martyswant Yeah, let's pull the goalie. — PolitiTweet.org

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With 10 hours left in the month, I have to say that March 2020 has been a bit of a disappointment. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich I'm sure it was heavily edited. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @jmartNYT @monthly Golly. I am amazed that you remembered it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I read the newspapers for a single day at the height of the 1918 pandemic. And what I saw was a chilling reminder that self-censorship creates a false reality that Sean Hannity can easily appreciate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ElizabethDrewOH @kasie @PhilipRucker An author can recognize his or her dust jacket at 400 yards in a pea-soup fog. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlanHutcheson @amortowles That's even bleak by contemporary pandemic standards. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are so many wonderful observations in this @JillDLawrence piece that I can't highlight them all. Here's a favorite: "First they came for Puerto Rico, and America did nothing...Then they came for California, and America did nothing." https://t.co/Lfk1LKQhV0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@amortowles I wish I could have found an excuse to also promote "Rules of Civility," which I loved. But if Count Rostov can do 30 years, I certainly can handle 30 days on the Upper West Side. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KevinMKruse: If all you care about are your TV ratings, remember that President Nixon attracted an estimated 110 million viewers for hi… — PolitiTweet.org

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One of those three men (Roy Cohn) died denying that he was the victim of a horrible epidemic. Cohn claimed to the last that he was dying of liver cancer and not AIDS. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DougBrunt @amortowles I'm honored by even the most glancing connection to "A Gentleman in Moscow." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: On the supporting local news front, the NY Post has been doing really good work documenting what's been taking place with co… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think that home confinement for a few weeks is onerous, I recommend reading the glorious and haunting "A Gentleman in Moscow" about decades of being confined. Albeit, in the Metropole Hotel. https://t.co/PZna22YZfV — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, this immoral strategy would also become politically disastrous if the virus spread wildly in the red states. And given the attitude of GOP governors in places like Mississippi that seems quite probable. https://t.co/rPiYNjNjh9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking out my window on a rainy, empty Saturday night on the Upper West Side, I take great comfort in seeing the large, retro neon sign of the liquor store across the street brightly lit as a welcoming beacon to the world. Photo from normal times; https://t.co/Tg9VhAHffl — PolitiTweet.org

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@geneweingarten @PostBaron Thanks for sharing. It made me feel so much better to imagine a funny, but banned, email. — PolitiTweet.org

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Books and movies would be entitled, "The Blockade Runners." — PolitiTweet.org

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@jwgop @MerylGordon Best line of the day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jwgop @MerylGordon Yes. And I recall you managing the off-year campaigns of several moderate Republicans that year. — PolitiTweet.org

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Presented without comment: The subject line from a fund-raising email signed by Donald J. Trump: "There’s not much time left." https://t.co/xtGOHtfI0H — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron @MerylGordon Yes. America endures. Upper West Side Strong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here in Manhattan, I want to reassure you that my wife @MerylGordon and I have been preparing for this crisis all our lives -- I'm an agoraphobic and Meryl's a hoarder. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kudos to @HenryJGomez for the definitive Mike DeWine profile. It reminds me that long ago an Ohio Democrat said to me about DeWine, "He's Ohio to his core. Never flashy, never exciting, but down to earth and competent." https://t.co/QAIs3Gp5qI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RuthMarcus: David Ignatius isn't the only smart Ignatius. Here is his father with a compelling piece on what we need to deal with the… — PolitiTweet.org

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@powellnyt Of course, I don't really know about science since I never had an uncle who was an MIT professor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Two small details: 1). Neither Germany nor Austria-Hungary attacked us in 1917. Nor did Japan. 2). The terrible influenza pandemic (fanned by government inaction and ineptitude) began in 1918. — PolitiTweet.org