Herb must have retired the trophy.
April 03, 2008
WSJ may endorse in ‘08; first time since Hoover!
When Rupert Murdoch spoke yesterday at Georgetown, he indicated that a long-standing Wall Street Journal tradition could be changed in 2008: The paper might endorse a presidential candidate.
The Journal has refrained from endorsing a presidential candidate for more than seven decades.
In a July 2007 editorial regarding the possible sale of Dow Jones, when Murdoch was only a suitor, the editorial board wrote the following:
“The Journal hasn’t endorsed a Presidential candidate since Herbert Hoover, preferring instead to praise or assail the candidates’ ideas.”