Over the years of my grand obsession with obituaries, I’ve learned that you can tell an awful lot about someone by the people who don’t like them. A whole lot of creeps didn’t like Jack Anderson.
called him "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures"- Richard Nixon considered him an enemy
- G. Gordon Liddy plotted to kill him
His obituary in the NYT is accompanied by one of the most uncomfortably weird photos I’ve ever seen of three men on a couch:
Jack Anderson was a pain in the ass. Jack Anderson must have been one hell of a guy. All hail Jack Anderson.