He wrote a New York Post column alleging that in 1996, a New York Times reporter had told him the questions he planned to ask Clinton in an interview and, essentially, promised a soft article in return for access. Morris provides the headline and date of the Times Magazine piece but not the author. It is easy to check, however, and the answer turns out to be Todd Purdum. It will be interesting to see if Purdum disputes Morris’s account.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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