Greetings, This is a very sad day in the U. S. , we lost a giant yesterday. Tim Russert, died of a heart attack on Friday, at 58, and life on Sunday will never be the same. Tim was a joy to watch, he would have people on his show, Meet the Press, and he tried and succeeded, at playing it straight down the middle. Whatever the case, he would be fair, with everyone. He listened to the person he was interviewing, and you always got the sense, that he wanted the audience to have the real story and to know what the person was actually all about.
He worked as an aide to Senator Patrick Monayhan,
and Mario Cumno. Until some seventeen years ago, when he took over as the host of Meet the Press.
The show improved tremendously under his
leadership. His famous dry eraser board, that he used during the 2000 election, between Al Gore and George W. Bush, to let the tv audience know that Florida, Florida, Florida, was the operative word, has been put on display in the Smithsonian Institute, quite a place of honor.
Everyone who knew him, loved Tim, and knew of his love for his son Luke, 22, who just graduated from Boston College. He and his wife Maureen, along with Luke, had just returned from Rome. He was working in his office on Friday, when he collasped, they tried to revive him, but he was gone. Mayor Brown of Buffalo, New York, ordered the flags lowered to half mast, in honor of one of the best, if not the best journalist in the country. As I said, in all seriousness, Sunday mornings will never be the same, there is a huge void in our hearts. Big Tim is no longer with us. God bless his family and friends, with grace and strength, as they endure this incredible loss. Take care.