and how we played. it was paradise." tell me about that. >> it was a paradisiacal childhood. my brother and i were inseparable. he was four years older, which is why this was a priceless gift. he always insisted i be included, so i got used to being around the big boys and taking the slings and arrows, and that's how you get toughened up. my parents were from europe. he was american, my brother. born in brazil, but that's a long story. but american, and he made me an american. >> that long story short -- krauthammer's mother, thea, is from belgium. his father, schlum, was a real estate developer from what is now a province of ukraine, both jews who'd left world war ii europe. they met in havana, moved to rio, and eventually new york city, where charles was born in 1950. when he was 5, the krauthammers moved to montreal. but they spent summers at the family cottage in long beach,