They had a memorial today for my friend Art Buchwald, who died earlier this year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. I couldn’t be there, but it sounded like just the kind of event Art — Artie, as many called him — would have loved. There were loads of Kennedys, and Tom Brokaw, and Dan Barry, and of course his dearest friends Ben Bradlee and Mike Wallace.
I last spoke to Art around New Year’s. I When he was supposed to die a year ago, I wrote an article for The Times about having met him on Martha’s Vineyard the previous summer.