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N.Y. Times Publisher Apologizes for Boomers
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told a college graduating class that he was ”sorry” for his generation’s failure to achieve the goals it had set back when he was a college student. "When I graduated in 1974, my fellow students and I ended the Vietnam War and ousted President Nixon,” he told about 900 graduates of the State University of New York at New Paltz on Sunday. "Okay, that’s not quite true. Maybe there were larger forces at play. "Either way, we entered the real world committed to making it a better, safer, cleaner, more equal place. We were determined not to repeat the mistakes of our predecessor. We had seen the horror and futility of war and smelled the stench of government corruption. Our children, we vowed, would never know that. "So, well, I am sorry.”
Story Continues Below Sulzberger, who became the Times publisher in 1992, urged the graduates to "know the world” and "stand up for America’s democracy.” "None of you wants to be standing where I am 30 years from now,” he said, "apologizing to the next generation of bright and shiny college graduates.”
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