Big jolly Tim Russert's last sad hug
A sad footnote to the shocking passing last week of longtime "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert.
His wife reveals having a funny feeling when the family ended a vacation in Italy to celebrate their son Luke's college g
raduation.
As her husband was leaving the hotel for the airport to return to work in Washington ahead of his family, Maureen Orth says she called him back. "I said to him, 'I want to give you a hug. Maybe I'll never see you again,'" Orth recalls. "I don't know why I said that to him. I just had a feeling."
Russert dropped dead at work before they did see each other again.
Our intrepid co-blogging colleague Elizabeth Snead has the rest of this touching story right now over on The Dish Rag.
--Andrew Malcolm
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Oof. "... dropped dead ..." feels harsh.
Posted by: Beth Kujawski | June 19, 2008 at 02:04 PM
"...I'll never see you again."
What the heck?
Posted by: Jeff B | June 19, 2008 at 02:59 PM