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To Say That We Are Closer To Victory Today Is To Believe In The Face Of The Evidence, The Optimists Who Have Been Wrong In The Past. To Say That We Are Mired In Stalemate Seems The Only Realistic, Yet Unsatisfactory, Conclusion. It Is Increasingly Clear To This Reporter That The Only Rational Way Out Then Will Be To Negotiate, Not As Victors, But As An Honorable People Who Lived Up To Their Pledge To Defend Democracy, And Did The Best They Could.

We've Always Known You Can Gain Circulation Or Viewers By Cheapening The Product, And Now You're Finding The Bad Driving Out The Good.

So Now The Question Is, Basically, Right Now, How Will The Osama Bin Laden Tape Affect The Election? And I Have A Feeling That It Could Tilt The Election A Bit. In Fact, I'm A Little Inclined To Think That Karl Rove, The Political Manager At The White House, Who Is A Very Clever Man, That He Probably Set Up Bin Laden To This Thing.

The Great Sadness Of My Life Is That I Never Achieved The Hour Newscast, Which Would Not Have Been Twice As Good As The Half-hour Newscast, But Many Times As Good.

It Is Not The Reporter's Job To Be A Patriot Or To Presume To Determine Where Patriotism Lies. His Job Is To Relate The Facts.