Columnist Jack Anderson Dies At 83

"Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83."

"Anderson died at his home in Bethesda, Md., of complications from Parkinson's disease, said one of his daughters, Laurie Anderson-Bruch."

Man, I haven't heard his name in years, and in fact, forgot all about him, I'm sorry to say. He was someone I always watched for back in the late 60s early 70s. He was one of the people that helped form my skepticism about politicians and big business, back in my impressionable years.

You could tell how good he was by how much the establishment hated him......

"Such scoops earned him a spot on President Nixon's "enemies list." Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has described how he and other Nixon political operatives planned ways to silence Anderson permanently — such as slipping him LSD or staging a fatal car crash — but the White House nixed the idea."

The man had integrity, something sorely missing in todays journalism.

R.I.P Jack!