Longtime political and congressional reporter Adam Clymer of the New York Times, who was featured in “Boys on the Bus,” died Monday at his home in Washington, according to the Times. He was 81.
Clymer covered several presidential campaigns, including the the 2000 race between George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore, during which Bush called out Clymer in a hot-mic diss.
During a Labor Day rally in Naperville, Ill., Bush was seen pointing Clymer out to running mate Dick Cheney, and with a live microphone in front of him, Bush chuckled, “There’s Adam Clymer, major-league a--hole from the New York Times.”
Cheney agreed, “Oh yeah, he is, big time.”
Bush never apologized, and his campaign spokesman said Bush had been upset by “very unfair” coverage by Clymer.
But according to the Times, Clymer’s favorite dateline — he had one from all 50 states — was on an article for The Baltimore Sun, quoting Richard Nixon in 1973 during the Watergate scandal as telling a convention of newspaper executives, “I am not a crook.”
The dateline was Disney World, Fla.
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