- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real test of an anchor is when there's a very big event. Sept. 11 is the quintessential example of that, and that day it took everything that I knew as an anchor, as a citizen, as a father, as a husband, to get through it.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020