President Jimmy Carter on Air Force One with (L-R) Hendrik Hertzberg, military aide (with nuclear codes in suitcase), President Carter, Jody Powell, Chris Matthews, David Rubenstein. (c. 1980) / White House Photograph

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President Jimmy Carter and Hendrik Hertzberg at Camp David (1980) / White House Photograph

Hertzberg (left) with his boss and friend Martin Peretz, owner of The New Republic. © 1984 Cynthia Johnson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Hertzberg and Virginia Cannon at the PEN American Center Literary Gala Honoring Salman Rushdie, Ilham Tohti, and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. © 2014 Jonothan Ziegler/Patrick McMullan

Hertzberg, interviewed on KLRU-TV's Overheard with Evan Smith. Photo © 2015 Sam Butler

Hendrik Hertzberg and Alec Baldwin at Tina Brown at Tina Brown's publication party for "The Vanity Fair Diaries.” © 2017 Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

(L-R) Hendrik Hertzberg, Virginia Cannon, Lawrence O'Donnell and Nora Ephron attend Time Warner's Conversations On The Circle with Time Warner's CEO Dick Parsons and Senator John Edwards at Time Warner Headquarters in NYC. © 2007 Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

(L-R) Andrew Weil, Dr. Amanda Foreman and Hendrik Hertzberg at the New York Launch of CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, hosted by Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans. © 2011 Patrick McMullan

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Hertzberg at the PEN American Center Literary Gala Honoring Salman Rushdie, Ilham Tohti, and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. © 2014 Jonothan Ziegler/Patrick McMullan

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Editorial Staff of The New Republic in the 1980’s.

Hertzberg, interviewed on KLRU-TV's Overheard with Evan Smith. © 2015 Sam Butler

Hertzberg, interviewed on KLRU-TV's Overheard with Evan Smith. © 2015 Sam Butler

Hertzberg at the Council for the United States and Italy (Consiusa) Biennial Conference in NYC. © 2010 Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

(L-R) Tina Brown, Hendrik Hertzberg, Virginia Cannon at Parade Magazine and The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Celebrate Senator Jim Webb’s New Publication "A Time To Fight.” © 2008 Nick Hunt/Patrick McMullan