Well, I Was Born In El Paso,

Some Days The Competition Would Beat Me And I'd Go Home Thinking Awful Thoughts, Want To Hide Under The Bed, Depressed. But Of Course, In The News Business, When You're Working A Daily News Broadcast, You Get Your Victories And Defeats Every Day.

And On Election Night I'd Go Down To City Hall In El Paso, Texas And Cover The Election. In Those Days, Of Course, We Didn't Have Exit Polls. You Didn't Know Who Had Won The Election Until They Actually Counted The Votes. I Thought That Was Exciting Too.

I Saw A Large, Red Dried Swath That I Immediately Identified Clearly As Blood. I Covered The War In Vietnam. I Saw A Lot Of It [blood] There.

In 27 Years Of Reporting From Washington, I've Never Heard A President Admit He Made A Mistake.

But In 1941, On December 8th, After The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor, My Mother Bought A Radio And We Listened To The War News. We'd Not Had A Radio Up To That Time. I Was Born In 1934, So I Was Seven Years Of Age.