Objective Journalism And An Opinion Column Are

To Say That We Are Closer To Victory Today Is To Believe In The Face Of The Evidence, The Optimists Who Have Been Wrong In The Past. To Say That We Are Mired In Stalemate Seems The Only Realistic, Yet Unsatisfactory, Conclusion. It Is Increasingly Clear To This Reporter That The Only Rational Way Out Then Will Be To Negotiate, Not As Victors, But As An Honorable People Who Lived Up To Their Pledge To Defend Democracy, And Did The Best They Could.

The Great Sadness Of My Life Is That I Never Achieved The Hour Newscast, Which Would Not Have Been Twice As Good As The Half-hour Newscast, But Many Times As Good.

The Daily Coverage Of The Vietnamese Battlefield Helped Convince The American Public That The Carnage Was Not Worth The Candle.

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.

Would It Be Better To Have A President Who Cries Easily? Well, That Depends On What He Cried About. I Would Not Like The Thought Of A President Who Could Not Cry. That Would Be Worse Than One Who Cried Over The Right Things. Which, In This Case, Would Be The Things I Would Cry Over.