James Reston

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Biography

Journalist, newspaper editor

  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 03 November 1909
  • Place of birth
  • Clydebank
  • Death date
  • 1995-12-06
  • Death age
  • 86
  • Place of death
  • Washington· D.C.
  • Children
  • James Reston Jr.
  • Education
  • University of Illinois system·University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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Trivia

Journalist with the Associated Press and, later, The New York Times.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 510-511. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Quotes

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat. . . invariably leads to new adventures.

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

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