Political Quotes

“careful readers of the New York Times may have noticed something special below the nameplate on the front page of today's issue. Just beneath the familiar box--known as the left ear in newspaper parlance--announcing ``All the News That's Fit to Print,'' it says the following: ``Vol. CXLIV . . . No. 50,000.'' The New York Times published its 50,000th issue today, a noteworthy milestone even for a newspaper as seemingly eternal and immutable as the great presence on West 43rd Street. The first issue of what was then called the New-York Daily Times appeared 143 years, 7 days ago, on Thursday, September 18, 1851. With only a very few interruptions, there has been an issue of the Times every day ever since. To give Senators a sense of the magnitude of this event: if one were to stack up 50,000 copies of the New York Times, the pile would be 300 feet taller than the Empire State Building, which is 102 stories tall. Mr. President, I am sure all Senators will join me in offering congratulations and great good wishes to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, and to everyone else at the Nation's ``newpaper of record,'' on this historic occasion.”