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The Long Labor Of Willard Wirtz
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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
12-20-2008
The Long Labor Of Willard Wirtz
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 1:00-2:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Coming up, the week in sports.
But first, Willard Wirtz is 96 years old, and he's seen even more than most people of whom it can be said, they've seen it all. Mr. Wirtz was born before World War I began. William Howard Taft was president. He went to law school during the Depression. He helped oversee the U.S. economy during World War II. He wrote speeches for Governor Adlai Stevenson of ...
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