Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jonathanalter I haven't watched more than 60 seconds so far -- and I don't care if the Jamaican bobsled team wins every event. I am fully boycotting this NBC ode to tyranny. — PolitiTweet.org

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@marciasmilack Nope. It is Philip Roth who I never met although we both lived on the Upper West Side. I had a brunch with Calvin Klein in 2004 and was at a small luncheon for Montand in 1982 at the French embassy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady Loved Maltby and Shire's revue, "Closer Than Ever." — PolitiTweet.org

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@MelindaKCMO A small luncheon at the French embassy in DC in about 1982. And he was just as you would have imagined him. I was utterly charmed and so was, needless to say, Ms. Gordon. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer Shadow King. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jackshafer You're now the Shadow Queen Consort. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SusanZakin Nope — that was a real dinner with a Wendy Wasserstein and Laurie Anderson around 2002. The ringer is Roth. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interested in a budget cremation from a company with the aggressively cheerful name of Tulip? Well, you're in luck. The Times has a perfect new-shores-of-online-shopping article for you: https://t.co/9zy3r0diyo — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@EBOlady I passed Eleanor Roosevelt on the stairs at Grand Central Station in about 1960 and shook Adlai Stevenson’s hand at the 1964 convention. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@aircake A close friend (a congresswoman) bonded with Calvin Klein in rehab. We were invited to join her at brunch with Calvin after they both got out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady Roth. Alas. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@EBOlady I will go with John Edwards as the ringer. JFK died long enough that the initial instinct is that he’s the ringer so a clever list suggests that you actually met him. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@EBOlady Nope. I was at a small luncheon in honor of the totally charming Yves Montand at the French embassy in Washington in the 1980s. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am omitting people like Clinton and Obama and Bush (2) whom I interviewed as a journalist. Here is my list of people I had a meal with (with one ringer): Lou Reed, Calvin Klein, Bill Styron, Philip Roth and Yves Montand. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davemorningstar @PrimeNewYork Yikes. I had forgotten it was that elaborate. Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@PrimeNewYork Without doing a full data base search, I do recall an embarrassing amount of chatter about Avenatti among people who should know better. — PolitiTweet.org

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The genuine grief over the ouster of Zucker is an illustration of the high-minded principle -- I don't care what he did to the country, he was supportive of me. @Sulliview got it completely right: https://t.co/xKTkmgiu7l — PolitiTweet.org

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Can everyone who, even for a millisecond, took Avenatti seriously as a presidential candidate please use this opportunity to take a timeout to read and reflect. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

As Donald Trump handed down from Mt. Sinai, the actual number is 666. The sacking of the Capitol didn't come close. https://t.co/MGDcMHZroY — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

A lovely dinner ruined: Sipping my wine, basking in good food at home, I politely issued a simple order: "Alexa, could you please clear the table and do the dishes." After three tries, I asked Siri the same thing. Silence. No wonder social media and tech stocks are plunging. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffSmithMO And, alas, I will receive "no professional consequences" as a result. Thanks for noticing. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I am vaguely curious what is "so wrong" with this column. I have been skeptical for months that the Democrats would suffer major losses from redistricting. Happy to provide examples. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JennyMurphy202 @geneweingarten Too bad that the Washington Commanders don't play baseball. I would love to see a game between the DC Commies and the Cincinnati Reds. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

That tweet would win the day if...and only if...there were a countdown clock. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jackshafer Yes, though I was kicked out of the press box for cheering for Portsmouth. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@AnikVJoshi The late 1960s. My editorials single-handedly stopped the Vietnam War, even though there was a gap of about six years. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

When I wrote my first editorial for the "Michigan Daily" in the 1960s, I prepared by going to visit Yale Kamisar and then, more or less, parroting his views. While I never really knew him, I admired his views and his kindness to a very nervous student pundit. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer I have not followed football at all since Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon boasted of proposing plays for the local team then known as the Redskins. I haven't watched a game since 1970, which, I know, will lose me major street cred. — PolitiTweet.org

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On this date in 2022, Rob Manfred and the owners he so loyally serves are once again out to torpedo the game that they regard as a cash cow rather than a sport. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ktumulty I don't follow football at all. But I would have made an exception to cheer every Sunday for the GS-15s. — PolitiTweet.org