The Washington Post, August 15th, 1988
WE WILL NOT pretend to be detached about Edward Bennett Williams, who died on Saturday after a prolonged struggle with cancer. Mr. Williams was friend, counselor, merciless ragger, Dutch uncle and-on some high-stakes, high-drama occasions-courtroom defender of this paper. In all this we were privileged, but we were not alone. As others whose lives he touched and affected can well attest, Mr. Williams had a towering gift for friendship, a world-class sense of humor and a range and degree of intelligence that continued to startle, no matter how long you knew him. Not only his friends and family,...
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