Nixon Foe Daniel Schorr Dies At 93

Above, Nixon nemesis Daniel Schorr.

Above, President Nixon leaving White House following resignation.

Former CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr died early today at age 93. He was most famous during the Watergate period when he locked horns with President Richard Nixon.

I'm sure the media will play lots of snippets of the clashes Nixon and Schorr had, but I remember reading (either in Time or Newsweek) back in the 1980s that Nixon used to host invitation-only dinner parties to discuss topics of interest to him (usually foreign policy) and he invited Schorr to one of them. Schorr, understandably, was a little puzzled on why he was invited, given their past history.

At the dinner party, Schorr approached Nixon and said, "I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Daniel Schorr."

Nixon responded with a big grin and a hearty handshake with, "Dan Schorr?! Of course I remember you! Damn near hired you once!"