Here is some of the Wikipedia entry about Mr. Walter Pincus:
Pincus was born in Brooklyn, New York, and after graduating from Yale University in 1954, he worked as a copy-boy for The New York Times. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1955, Pincus served in the Counterintelligence Corps in Washington, D.C. from 1955-1957. After his discharge, he worked at the copy desk of The Wall Street Journal's Washington edition. He left in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In 1963, he moved to the Washington Star before joining The Washington Post, where he worked from 1966 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive editor of The New Republic. He covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon and the Watergate trial, writing articles for the magazine and op-ed pieces for The Washington Post. In 1975, he returned to the Post to write for the national staff of the newspaper.
At The Washington Post, Pincus has written about a variety of national news subjects ranging from nuclear weapons and arms control to political campaigns to the American hostages in Iran to investigations of Congress and the Executive Branch. For six years he covered the Iran-contra affair. He covered the intelligence community and its problems arising out of the case of confessed spy Aldrich Ames, allegations of Chinese espionage at the nuclear weapons laboratories.
Pincus attended Georgetown Law School part-time beginning in 1995 and graduated in 2001, at the age of sixty-eight.
Pincus currently teaches a class at the Stanford in Washington center.
Well, I met Walter Pincus and spent a couple of hours with the man, and I have to say that he is one of the most fascinating and intelligent people I have ever met.
The above piece doesn’t cover the extent of his career, his involvement in the Plame affair, his coverage of Clinton/Lewinski, the war in Nicaragua, the Pulitzer Prize he won for his reportage of 9/11…and it goes on. In the film ‘All The President’s Men’, the very famous editor, Ben Bradlee, was played by Jason Robards. Robards won an Oscar for his performance. Well, Walter was hired by Ben Bradlee to write for the Post in 1966. He knew (and still knows) both Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Walter gave me an insight into the machinations of government, politics, of political graft, influence, corruption, and many other things. When I said that my view on the relationship between the administration and the CIA was that if you wanted to know what the President wanted done, then all you had to look at was what the CIA were doing. Walter said that that was a very accurate way of looking at it.
The man is a legend in the newspaper industry, a true gentleman, and at seventy-eight years of age he’s still working full-time, teaching as well, and when asked how long he intended to go on working he told me that the record for the oldest reporter at the Post was ninety-two.
I have a feeling that Walter might break the record.