Comments on: “The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right” – William Safire, dead at age 79 http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/09/the-right-to-do-something-does-not-mean-that-doing-it-is-right-william-safire-dead-at-age-79/ It's a Jewish Blog! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:43:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Larry http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/09/the-right-to-do-something-does-not-mean-that-doing-it-is-right-william-safire-dead-at-age-79/comment-page-1/#comment-1353819 Larry Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:55:10 +0000 http://www.jewlicious.com/?p=10733#comment-1353819 Let me add three more items: William Safire and his wife also used to have a glorious break the fast meal each Yom Kippur, and his guest for many decades was Daniel Schorr. Here was an arch liberal and an arch libertarian conservative, the man who was hated by Nixon (enemies list) and the man who write Nixon's speeches, breaking bagels and coming together in their Jewishness each year William Safire served on the board of the Dana Foundation which funded TAU in Tel Aviv William Safire created a club over 50 years ago, that we should all emulate. A group of ten people (in this case, men), in their 20's, who would meet once a month in NYC. No more than two would be from the same industry. They would have guest "speakers," and meet to discuss their nascent careers and what they did at work and in life. Let me add three more items:

William Safire and his wife also used to have a glorious break the fast meal each Yom Kippur, and his guest for many decades was Daniel Schorr. Here was an arch liberal and an arch libertarian conservative, the man who was hated by Nixon (enemies list) and the man who write Nixon’s speeches, breaking bagels and coming together in their Jewishness each year

William Safire served on the board of the Dana Foundation which funded TAU in Tel Aviv

William Safire created a club over 50 years ago, that we should all emulate. A group of ten people (in this case, men), in their 20’s, who would meet once a month in NYC. No more than two would be from the same industry. They would have guest “speakers,” and meet to discuss their nascent careers and what they did at work and in life.

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