WHEN SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY TRIED TO GET A YOUNG REPORTER NAMED TOM WOLFE FIRED. “A reminder to liberals who’ve deluded themselves into believing that politicians playing hardball with reporters is a recent phenomenon. To his credit, and not surprising to those of us who greatly admired his work, Wolfe resisted the much-ballyhooed Kennedy charm that left so many of his media cohorts weak in the knees. Incidentally, the man Kennedy sent to do his dirty work is remembered today for a different reason — it was Larry O’Brien’s office that was targeted by Watergate burglars in June 1972.”