Hundreds in N.Y. Attend Services for Theodore White

NEW YORK — Author Theodore H. White was eulogized Tuesday as a lover of the human race, a patriot and a tireless reporter whose life was devoted to finding the truth and explaining it.

“Did Teddy White ever find the history he spent his life in search of?” asked Blair Clark, former editor of The Nation magazine. “Of course not . . . . But he came close, very close. Didn’t he?”

Hundreds attended the service for White at Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue.

The author, who changed political reporting with his “Making of the President” books, died of a stroke Thursday at age 71.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) said all of White’s work could be considered a meditation on “the balance of liberty and order.”