combat is did it is like in today s environment, it s young men in combat. brigades took over from the brigade you took over. thank you very much. thank you all of you for coming. this is an appreciation of you, for you being here tonight. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] .. taking your phone calls, e-mails and tweets sunday at noon eastern on c-span2. watch previous in-depth programs on booktv.org where you can find the entire weekend schedule. about five years ago a got a letter from a teacher that i had in a grade in chicago. she had saved one of my papers that i have written about thanksgiving. she really likes the secret and she mailed it to me and said i kept this all these years because it was one of the best papers i had gotten from a student. i read that paper and i was going i was really good! [talking over each other] the blessing what it meant to me. [talking over each other] it is in some box with all my memorabilia. anyway apparently
male-dominated profession. she joins abc news sharing her story with nia-malika henderson of the washington post. host: i m bsn cent. it will come. great to have you here. you have written a book, your autobiography, newslady. i want to start out asking you why you decided to back this book. guest: because, i had a 40 year long career in broadcast journalism. i don t think anybody else in history has that distinction, and i wanted to tell my story because i thought it had lessons. i thought it had pain. i thought it had humor. i have had lots of experiences, and i just wanted to put them down. i ve left abc not a happy perso. it was a mutual parting of ways. then i was, like, now, when michael and to do? a decided the first and i want to do was to start writing everything that happened. it was a real catharsis. you should have seen me riding. i would write a story. i was typing on my computer. an abbott start crying. it was so painful, and i remember the pain. i would h
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in this generation we have seen an extraordinary america. the greeks wrote so many years ago, to attain the status just of man and make gentle the life of this world. let us dedicate ourselves to the s and say a prayer for our country and for our people. it is the right thing to do. every time you say we re going to do this, because it is the right thing to do. at this critical moment in history, he brought something to the department and to the job which helped transform the sense of possible. it is impossible for me to imagine my life without having known him. the standard for attorney past, andnow, in the in the future is robert kennedy. tothere s a tendency mythologize not only what would he been but what he had been. at the same time, what happened in the kennedy administration was real. it has been recorded. its successes were meaningful and a change the nation. no matter what talent and individual possesses, no matter what energy he might as, no matter ho
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