The Fromson File

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 [...]

It has taken me nearly a week to reflect on how figures like Robert McNamara contributed to the erosion of the American people’s trust in so many of their institutions. It was his arrogance and self-confidence that so diminished whatever he had to say about Vietnam from the time the war began. McNamara was so [...]

Tears of nostalgia filled my eyes Monday evening, watching Caroline and Ted Kennedy open the Democratic National Convention in Denver. It reminded me of a reporting assignment I had at the so-called Kennedy Convention that was convened in Los Angeles 48 years ago. The setting was concentrated in the city’s Sports Arena that seated no [...]