Occupation: Journalist Birth: March 11, 1934
If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again..
As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college….
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided….
I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I….
If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!.
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,….
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do..
So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the dama….
My personal opinion is that guns kill people..
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio..
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny..
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 bu….
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops.….
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but ….
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawf….
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..
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You did….
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 someth….
The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment..
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..
In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake..