A.O.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/opinion/aos.html?ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Subject: re: A.O.S.
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  We miss Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Let one example stand for all. In 1971, he defied pressure from the White House and from the Pentagon and the threat of imprisonment to publish the Pentagon Papers.  He saw clearly that the  American electorate needed to go into the presidential election of 1972 with the best information available to make their choice. His successors have not consistently shown as much spine. The story of illegal warrantless wiretapping was quashed under pressure from the White House.  Only after the presidential election of 2004 did the electorate learn that one of the major candidates had been running a vast criminal enterprise. We miss Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, and our democracy is less legitimate for his passing.

Barry Haskell Levine