It Wasn't Until The Late '70s That

But In 1941, On December 8th, After The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, My Mother Bought A Radio And We Listened To The War News. We'd Not Had A Radio Up To That Time. I Was Born In 1934, So I Was Seven Years Of Age.

The Press . . . Traditionally Sides With Authority And The Establishment.

In 27 Years Of Reporting From Washington, I've Never Heard A President Admit He Made A Mistake.

And Really, The Basis, I Think, Of Achieving Some Success In What I Want To Do Today Comes From My Mother's Push To Get Me To Read And To Make Something Of Myself From The Standpoint Of An Education.

I Saw A Large, Red Dried Swath That I Immediately Identified Clearly As Blood. I Covered The War In Vietnam. I Saw A Lot Of It [blood] There.