Marty Plissner, veteran CBS political sage and Brooklyn native, dies
Marty Plissner, the longtime Brooklyn-born political director of CBS News, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 87.
Plissner is credited with coining the phrase “too close to call” a half-century ago, heard often ever since during tight vote counts.
He was known for his extensive political knowledge and his range of political contacts, establishing himself by one appraisal as the gold standard for several generations of political journalists.