At Jack McWethy Memorial, the Ghost of a Famous Grin

WASHINGTON, D.C.—"Sometimes the end comes like a thief in the night," said Sam Donaldson.

Mr. Donaldson was standing on a stage at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., yesterday morning, quoting the Bible. Like the hundred or so mourners who had gathered in the large auditorium, Mr. Donaldson was struggling to make sense of the sudden Read More

Dan Rather: How I Bagged Saddam Chat

“As I speak to you, we are cruising across where the Iraqi desert meets the Jordanian desert, though a desert wind and a rain storm,” Dan Rather said. “I haven’t had as much sleep as I sometimes do.”

It was late on Tuesday, Feb. 25, and Mr. Rather, 71, was speaking via a crackling cell Read More

Lou Dobbs: Space Cowboy or Space Cadet?

Lou Dobbs stood atop an overgrown foothill on his 300-plusacre,Sussex County, N.J., estate and looked out at all that is his: the 30 horses and three dogs, the man-made pond, the 80-year-old mansion, the small white cottages where the stablehands live. He was talking to a stranger about his latest obsession: a yet-to-launch Web site Read More