"Some of What the Outside World Has Had to Say"

"The vision of John Oakes, the editorial page editor, and Harrison Salisbury, the eminent foreign correspondent, Op-Ed was meant to open the paper to outside voices. It was to be a venue for writers with no institutional affiliation with the paper, people from all walks of life whose views and perspectives would often be at odds with the opinions expressed on the editorial page across the way."

The editors of The New York Times mark the fortieth anniversary of the newspaper's Op-Ed page.