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James A. Wechsler (October 31, 1915 in New York City - September 11, 1983 in New York City) was an American journalist: newspaper columnist, Washington bureau chief, editor-in-chief, and editorial page editor of The ''New York Post''. He was a prominent voice of American liberalism for 40 years and was considered one of the most highly informed and responsible political writers in Washington. ==Career== Entering Columbia University just shy of age 16, Wechsler graduated in 1935 after rising to editor-in-chief of the ''Columbia Daily Spectator''. In his first year he attended a speech by Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler, who said that democracies are incapable of choosing strong leaders like totalitarian nations could, which shocked him. He was shocked again when his friend Reed Harris was fired as editor of the ''Spectator'' for criticizing the professionalization of college football.〔()〕 Between 1934 and 1937 Wechsler belonged to the Young Communist League and was a leader of the pro-Communist American Student Union. He left the League after "an eye-opening trip to the Soviet Union."〔Moynihan, Michael (McCarthy and His Friends ), ''Reason''〕 He publicly condemned the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and was repeatedly attacked by official Communist organs. From 1942 to 1946 (except for one year in the US Army) Wechsler was national editor of the newspaper ''PM''. In May 1949, at the age of 33, Wechsler was named editor of ''The New York Post'' and, in an unusual arrangement, was in charge of both the news operation and the editorial page. During this period, ''The Post'' became known as a crusading liberal newspaper, undertaking investigate exposes of J. Edgar Hoover, Walter Winchell and Robert Moses, among others. In Sept., 1952, the paper published a story about a fund financed by wealthy California businessmen to supplement then-Senator and vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon's office expenses that led Nixon to respond in his famous televised Checkers speech. In 1961, Wechsler was shifted to the position of editorial page editor after being replaced as editor of the news section by Paul Sann; he held that position until 1980. Besides editorials, Wechsler also wrote a regular column that continued until shortly before his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Wechsler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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