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Success Is More Permanent When You Achieve It Without Destroying Your Principles.

Not Only Do We Have A Right To Know, We Have A Duty To Know What Our Government Is Doing In Our Name. If There's A Criticism To Be Made Today, It's That The Press Isn't Doing Enough To Put The Pressure On The Government To Provide Information.

We've Got A Great Percentage Of Our Population That, To Our Great Shame, Either Cannot Or, Equally Unfortunate, Will Not Read. And That Portion Of Our Public Is Growing. Those People Are Suckers For The Demagogue.

It Is Clear That Military Force And Our Policy Of Preemption Are Alone Insufficient To Make Us Safe. But Help Is On The Way. Legislation Has Been Proposed To Create A Us Department Of Peace. In The Propsed Department Of Peace It Would Organize Our Present System Into One Conscious Effort To Improve Humanity In Achieving Peace, Where True Safety Lies.

As Anchorman Of The Cbs Evening News, I Signed Off My Nightly Broadcasts For Nearly Two Decades With A Simple Statement: "and That's The Way It Is." To Me, That Encapsulates The Newsman's Highest Ideal: To Report The Facts As He Sees Them, Without Regard For The Consequences Or Controversy That May Ensue.