Don Baker — longtime Richmond bureau chief for The Washington Post, who died on Christmas Day at age 90 — once was brushed off at a news conference by someone who told him questions were only for the media.
Left: Courtesy of John Harris. Right: Tweeted by David Poole, Virginia Public Access Project
the grizzled West Virginia native replied — an instant classic immortalized on the button above, given out at his retirement party.with Don — and an up-and-comer named Peter Baker — at Old City Hall in Richmond, next to the Capitol, when I was starting at The Post as a Virginia political reporter. Don loved the game: I remember him telling us conspiratorially, as he had generations of young reporters, that everything from the dinner we were about to have with a statewide candidate was off the record —Don and his wife, Nancy, showered hospitality on the reporters who came through the bureau — including invitations to their grand home on Monument Avenue, with an A+ balcony view of the Easter parade.
"He was also quite commanding — the senior figure in the Richmond press corps and among the most respected ever."
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