Ruminating with NEWTON MINOW

Obama mentor, founder of presidential debates and the last living JFK appointee, on the 60th anniversary of his famous speech about the “vast wasteland” of television

I’ve known Newt Minow for most of my life—my parents were old friends and neighbors and he has been an invaluable source of counsel to me and so many others. He is the last link to the Democratic Party of Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy and knew both men well, which we talk about.

Now 95 and in astonishing physical and mental shape, Newt was a Jewish…