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Doris Day, Estee Lauder, Arnold Palmer Among Medal of Freedom Honorees Elizabeth Wolfe/Associated Press Jun 18, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has selected a dozen people, including an actress, a golf champion and a former senator, to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Friday. Two of the recipients will be honored posthumously, while the others are invited to receive the nation's highest civilian honor at a White House ceremony with Bush next Wednesday. The Medal of Freedom, established by President Truman in 1945 to recognize civilians for their World War II service, was reinstated by...

As Ronald Reagan leaves office, the nation still has not quite taken his measure. Even his critics like the guy, and even his friends often sound disappointed. Someone ought to say that his is likely to prove the most epochal presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Not the least of Mr. Reagan's accomplishments is how much the nation has forgotten. He took office in the very shadow of a hostage crisis, remember? Remember gasoline lines? Remember double-digit inflation and interest rates twice today's? Remember Watergate? Remember Vietnam? As Ronald Reagan hands over the reins tomorrow, the first President since Eisenhower to...

<p>Easter Monday is an apt time to note that President George W. Bush has been taking darts as a born-again Christian. This tells us something about today's president, and something more about today's religion.</p> <p>The president comes by his faith, of course, because he stopped drinking and found God at age 40. As a Methodist, he's not exactly a speaking-in-tongues Pentecostal, but he clearly does believe that good and evil walk the world. He also says things such as, "Behind all of life and all of history, there's a dedication and a purpose, set by the hand of a just and faithful God." This comes from the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, where other presidents have said similar things. But both friend and foe have the sense that Mr. Bush really means it.</p>

<p>With both Republicans and a rightist third party running strong, many people are talking about a "swing to the right." We find it both more precise and more profound to talk about the collapse of the left.</p> <p>For some 35 years New Deal liberalism has been the prevailing intellectual creed in this nation, embodied in the Democratic Party as the prevailing political force. Even allowing for some recovery by election day, that the Democratic nominee should fall to 29% in the Gallup poll suggests that important new tides are flowing not only in politics but in public thinking.</p>

<p>The Dec. 6 passing of Robert L. Bartley, The Wall Street Journal's editor emeritus, has been widely recognized as a monumental loss of American intellectual firepower on behalf of free men and free markets. What has been less well recognized is what Latin America has lost, in a friend, a visionary and an intellectual force who viewed the region with undying optimism. It is a record worth revisiting.</p>

Two Who Made a Difference Paul Craig Roberts Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003 America lost two tax-cutting heroes last week – former Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley and former Republican senator from Delaware, William Roth. I knew both men well, having worked with Roth and his staff in creating the Kemp-Roth bill and having served on Bartley's editorial page. Both men did much for America: Roth cut tax rates, gave us the Roth IRA and championed the taxpayer against IRS abuse; Bartley acquainted influential people with an alternative policy to Keynesian demand management, which had mired the economy in...

<p>When Edith Bartley called the Journal last Wednesday morning to say that her husband had finally lost his long and courageous battle against cancer, my thoughts went back to my first meeting with Robert L. Bartley. That was a long time ago. In the late 1960s, Bob had dropped into the Journal's London bureau, where I was based. He was then an editorial writer in New York, barely 30 years old, but didn't seem especially thrilled in the presence of glamorous foreign correspondents.</p>

       One of the extraordinary things about Robert L. Bartley, who for thirty years was the editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages, is that he had legions of admirers -- few of whom could pick his face out of a crowd. Bartley did not become influential or famous through any conventional means. He rarely appeared on television. He gave relatively few speeches. He was not a regular on the talk radio circuit or a star in the blogosphere. Nor was he vaulted to popular attention by public-relations men, publicity stunts or fawning articles in the...

<p>Over the years a certain legend has grown up around Bob Bartley that he was a writer of forbidding, dazzling and sometimes distant intellect -- aloof, shy and given to turning conversations into becalmed seas of silence. Whatever the truth in the legend, it only partly explained the man. There is more.</p>

<p>'A Promising Issue'</p> <p>Are Democrats hoping for America to lose in Iraq? Michael Kinsley seems to think so. "The slow souring of the American adventure in Iraq is a promising and legitimate issue for the Democrats," he writes. "And they will benefit from it no matter what they say."</p>

The Most Important Journalist of Our Time December 11, 2003 Send to a Colleague Printer-Friendly Version Memo To: Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: The Passing of Bob Bartley In the memo on the margin I posted yesterday about US Politics Today, I recalled that in January 1972, while I was working for the Dow Jones National Observer as its political columnist, I got two job offers at the same time. One was from a U.S. Senator who asked me to join his staff as Legislative Assistant, the other came from Bob Bartley, who had just been named editor...

<p>Over the years a certain legend has grown up around Bob Bartley that he was a writer of forbidding, dazzling and sometimes distant intellect -- aloof, shy and given to turning conversations into becalmed seas of silence. Whatever the truth in the legend, it only partly explained the man. There is more.</p>

<p>Former Wall Street Journal editorial-page editor Robert L. Bartley, described by President Bush as one of the most influential journalists in the country, died of cancer in a New York hospital yesterday. He was 66.</p> <p>Over the past 30 years, Mr. Bartley had shaped the Journal editorial pages into a daily, highly entertaining classroom for already educated readers.</p>

<p>Wall Street Journal readers and writers lost a friend, a mentor and an inspiration yesterday with the death at age 66 of our columnist and Editor Emeritus Robert L. Bartley. We take it as more than a little consolation that he was the most consequential editor of his era and left the world both better and freer than he found it.</p>

<p>What a great man Bob Bartley was. He had guts and he was honest and independent and he worked hard. He was living proof that journalism doesn't have to be a vanity production. It can be big. It can change history. He did.</p>

<p>Wall Street Journal readers and writers lost a friend, a mentor and an inspiration yesterday with the death at age 66 of our columnist and Editor Emeritus Robert L. Bartley. We take it as more than a little consolation that he was the most consequential editor of his era and left the world both better and freer than he found it.</p>

<p>Robert L. Bartley The Wall Street Journal's editor emeritus dies at 66.</p> <p>NEW YORK--Robert L. Bartley, who made The Wall Street Journal's editorial page one of the nation's most influential conservative voices during his 30 years as its editor, has died of cancer at age 66.</p>

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<p>We hope our readers will allow us a moment of pride and gratitude today as we extend our heartiest congratulations to Wall Street Journal columnist and Editor Emeritus Robert Bartley, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday by President Bush.</p>

<p>We hit a milestone with CBS's canceling of "The Reagans."</p> <p>CBS blinked.</p> <p>We hit a milestone in the culture wars last week with the internment of the threatened Ronald Reagan hit job. For once, perhaps for the first time, one of our pre-eminent cultural institutions conceded that the great unwashed had it right. Instead of wrapping itself in the First Amendment right to be irresponsible, the network looked for the least graceless way out.</p>