Remembering Les Gelb

On the Media

• Episode: Remembering Les Gelb
• Website: On the Media
• Feed URL: http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia
• Duration: 00:17:43
• Published: 2019-09-04 18:00

On Saturday, Leslie Gelb died at the age of 82. Gelb was a Senate aide in his 20s, a New York Times correspondent in his 30s, an assistant Secretary of State as he neared 40, then back to the Times as national security correspondent, editor, columnist, part of a Pulitzer Prize–winning team and finally, rounding out his career, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also made several memorable appearances on On the Media. Brooke remembers him this week and we revisit a conversation they had back in 2018 about the Pentagon Papers.