If You Sent Me To Cover A

Call Me A Braggart, Call Me Arrogant. People At Abc (and Elsewhere) Have Called Me Worse. But When You Need The Job Done On Deadline, You'll Call Me.

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.

News Conferences Are The Only Chance The American Public Has To See Ronald Reagan Use His Mind.

Some Days The Competition Would Beat Me And I'd Go Home Thinking Awful Thoughts, Want To Hide Under The Bed, Depressed. But Of Course, In The News Business, When You're Working A Daily News Broadcast, You Get Your Victories And Defeats Every Day.

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.