Zitat des Tages von Tom Brokaw:
I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?
John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.
The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.
I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.
I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.
The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
