C.W. Post History Professor’s Expertise Cited by Famed New York Times Writer

Neal Rosendorf, assistant professor of history at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, won credit from legendary columnist William Safire in the Nov. 5, 2006 issue of The New York Times Magazine. Safire had contended that the phrase “cold war” was coined by speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope in 1946. Dr. Rosendorf, however, pointed out that George Orwell had used the phrase a year earlier, in an essay on life in the atomic age. Safire conceded the point graciously enough. “Usually I grit my teeth when making a correction, but not when it comes to etymological antedating,” he wrote. “Discovering earlier citations seems never to end.”