Tim Russert – Done Too Soon

“If it’s Sunday Morning, it’s Meet the Press”

Those words have been uttered by Tim Russert since 1991. And now, suddenly, he has left us in the midst of what must have been for him one of the most exciting times of his life – an historic election, the graduation of his son from Boston College, and the enormous popularity of his books Big Russ and Me and Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons.

We will remember him, of course, as “one of the good ones” in political journalism. Like anyone, he wasn’t perfect, but he was a voice and a face we knew and trusted. There he was, every Sunday morning.

Through his devotion to his family there is a particular poignancy to his passing on Father’s Day weekend, leaving behind both a father and a son.

Perhaps then the best way to honor Tim’s life and work is to honor our own fathers and the wisdom they have laid down for us as we make our way through life.  

Tim Russert died at the top of his game. He seemed to relish his life and work. But it was all done too soon.