One of the lessons a political reporter learns early in life is never to underestimate greatness. Case in point: Ted Kennedy. I’m sure that none of my colleagues covering his early emergence on the national horizon in the 1960s bet on him as a promising young star, even when the lives of his brothers were [...]
Entries from August 2009
Remembering Ted Kennedy
August 30th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bangkok · cbs news · John F. Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson · moscow · Robert F. Kennedy · Ted Kennedy
Memories of Don Hewitt
August 21st, 2009 2 Comments
I knew Don Hewitt when he was up and down, mostly up. It was before I joined CBS News. I was an AP reporter on home leave and passing through Manhattan, Sandy Socolow invited me to watch a broadcast of a mid-day news program with a relatively unknown anchorman named Walter Cronkite, a program in [...]
Tags: 60 minutes · Buck Zimmerman · cbs news · Don Hewitt · Richard Nixon · Sandy Socolow · Walter Cronkite
Our Sick Society
August 10th, 2009 No Comments
Time is running out before we’re robbed of our sanity. Long ago in World War II, there used to be a patriotic poster that hung on many walls. It read, “loose lips sink ships.” Today, our ship of state is in mighty danger of being sunk because of the reckless violation of one of our [...]
Tags: Bill O'Reilly · CNN · Fox News · Glenn Beck · Jon Stewart · Roger Ailes · Rupert Murdoch · Rush Limbaugh
