Posted by
Board Certified M.D. on Saturday, June 14, 2008 5:07:35 PM
I have hit the jackpot researching Tim Russert the last 2 days. I can't help it but his stature and skill as a thinker and interviewer are so formidable and a je ne sais quoi but I am drawn into learning more about this man's life. It was his God graced intellect, sharpened by the formidable Jesuits and molded by his no nonsense faithful and hard working Irish Catholic parents. In the process of swimming the net I have found a gem of a tiny little website from Western New York that has some articles of Tim Russert written 9 years ago that is worth looking at:
Living Prime Time
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An upbeat, colorful and positive Multimedia delivery system
consisting of Print, Radio, Television and a Website.
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It is designed to communicate directly to Baby Boomers and those who are 60 Plus.
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Produced by and for Western New Yorkers, it is dedicated to the proposition that...The BEST is yet to Come!
Tim Russert: Sharing Buffalo with America-Part II:
Great article on his mentor Sisters of Mercy(Sister Lucille) whom Tim plugged in an interview with Howard Kurtz here: "I think the training I had with the Sisters of Mercy and the Jesuits and law school: preparation, discipline, accountability, trying to immerse yourself in work, showing up prepared for class, showing up prepared for "Meet the Press."
Very, very interesting and helps to explain why I am drawn to this Man whom God has called home! To quote Tim from many years ago the same words apply to him: “As we think of the death of our dear President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we are deeply saddened,” wrote 13 year-old Timothy Russert in the Bonette, the school newspaper of St. Bonaventure school in West Seneca. “It is comforting to remember that, although John Fitzgerald Kennedy has lost his short life on earth, he has begun a new and glorious eternal life.”
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Tim in first grade at Holy Family School, 1955
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Cheers and Dominus Vobiscum