The Old Journalist

Over lunch one day he told me, "The one thing I've learned in my career is that today's son of a bitch is tomorrow's hero. People have a habit of coming back." He'd met every Arizona governor but the first and could give pithy and often brutal takes on each. He followed the legislature the way some follow the racetrack but with far more detachment. His father had been a powerful, behind-the-scenes, operative but the son was more content to stay a few seats up in the stands. He was a walking novel. I cherish his memory.