Opinion: Big jolly Tim Russert’s last sad hug

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A sad footnote to the shocking passing last week of longtime ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Tim Russert.

His wife reveals having a funny feeling when the family ended a vacation in Italy to celebrate their son Luke’s college graduation.

As her husband was leaving the hotel for the airport to return to work in Washington ahead of his family, Maureen Orth says she called him back. ‘I said to him, ‘I want to give you a hug. Maybe I’ll never see you again,’’ Orth recalls. ‘I don’t know why I said that to him. I just had a feeling.’

Russert dropped dead at work before they did see each other again.

Our intrepid co-blogging colleague Elizabeth Snead has the rest of this touching story right now over on The Dish Rag.

--Andrew Malcolm