From a Washington Post obit by Harrison Smith headlined “Ken Bode, political reporter who moderated ‘Washington Week,’ dies at 83”:
Erudite but unpretentious, Dr. Bode was a savvy chronicler of the nation’s political scene. He combined the expertise of a scholar (he had a PhD in political science) and the passion of an activist (he had worked for liberal Sen. George S. McGovern) with an open, easygoing manner that friends traced to his upbringing in small-town Iowa.
