In 1999, Blitzer won the International Platform Association's LowellThomas Broadcast Journalism Award for outstanding contributions to broadcast journalism.
W. Apple Jr. in his best LowellThomas imitation, under the headline AS PRESIDENT TESTIFIES, A SUBDUED CAPITAL WAITS FOR WORD. (How does the Timesman who reads the capital's moods distinguish among Subdued, Indifferent, Preoccupied and Vaguely Depressed?) Almost the entire front page was given over to the carnival.