Remembering Richard Reeves

The death this week of my sometime Sag Harbor neighbor Richard Reeves, the noted reporter-columnist-author-historian, at age 83, prompts posting the following Newsweek On Air and For Your Ears Only radio broadcasts on which he shared his rigorously researched insights on politics and presidents.

Trained as an engineer, Reeves entered journalism with some New Jersey pals by starting their own local paper, The Phillipsburg Free Press, and soon he was working for the Newark News, the New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times, where he eventually became chief political correspondent, after which an independent syndicated columnist.

His dozen books include the critical “A Ford, Not a Lincoln” (for which he later apologized), “President Kennedy: Profile of Power” (1993), “President Nixon: Alone in the White House” (2001) and “President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination” (2005), "Portrait of Camelot" (2010) and "Infamy” (2015), about the Japanese-American internment of World War II (for which the U.S. later apologized). Also “American Journey” (1982), for which he spent five years re-tracing the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville;

Reeves gave good interview, and with late wife Catherine O'Neill, also fun, mind-expanding meals in Sag Harbor.

https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_931114_complete at 23:43 on JFK's Final Days

https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_010902_complete at 34:36 on the Inner Nixon

https://archive.org/details/fyeo-fyeo_110403_complete at 10:22 on a controversial JFK "docudrama"