Requiescat In Pace

I can't say it any better than the Wall Street Journal Political Diary:

Political Diary is sad to report the death of Robert L. Bartley, longtime editor of the Wall Street Journal and a great American. All of us who served under him know that he was the finest journalistic mind of his time and a great public intellectual. He recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush, and never was a medal more aptly named or better deserved.

The man brought freedom to people with ideas and effective writing. I am glad that he received the medal. He will be sorely missed.

UPDATE: OpinionJournal has a lot more, including:

"How many other editorial pages can say they created the economic policy for an administration and for an era? Without The Wall Street Journal editorial page, there is no supply side economics," journalist Fred Barnes said in a Public Broadcasting System documentary in 1999.

Posted by jk at December 10, 2003 11:43 AM