News Conferences Are The Only

I Don't Know Many People, If Any, Who Have Had Some Straight Line Toward Success. I Mean, They Start Here, They Work Hard, They've Got What It Takes, And They Just Go Straight To The Top Over Some Number Of Years. Most People Get A Little Failure.

It Wasn't Until The Late '70s That A Lot Of People Knew Me.

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.

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 Questions Don't Do The Damage. Only The Answers Do.