just like everybody else. i don t handle criticism well. , but i ve also realized, if i can t handle criticism then i shouldn t be moderating presidential debates and should maybe be a television. that goes with the territory and public reaction and it s impossible to please everybody. if you start taking about using everybody, then you will please nobody. if i feel i m so cocky now. hockey is not the word. i ve been doing this so long that somebody criticizes me for some pain and i don t think the criticism is just a plan i don t worry about. nobody has to tell me when i screwed up. i know when i screwed. and that comes with doing this a long time. host: but about the next debate? guest: they re going to be great. i m not going to participate. i ll be watching them and not be willing to help anybody i can to do anything i can to help them be critical to the election process. i will be there to help as an observer. host: and watching it in front of the tv set will be a
life of william wild bill donovan, often thought of as the father of the cia. he examines william donovan s leadership of the office of strategic services during the second world war and his thoughts on the use of counterintelligence. this lasts about an hour. i m glad they have the photo of donovan of your. this is kind of an iconic portrait shot of donovan. you will see that when you go to the oss society meetings. and the one commonly folks identify him with. there s a funny story behind it. you will notice he has his hair is cut real short here. he was out in the field most of the time when he was running the oss and he liked to go in on allied landings. very often he would have the ships barber or military barbara give him a crewcut before he went out. when he got back to headquarters he would get teased by the headquarters staff. wallace who is on his personal staff would say that some haircut you ve got there, mr.. and donovan laughed. he got a lot of his haircut
the one folks identify him with. you notice his hair is cut short here. he has a crew cut. he was out in the field most of the time while running the oss and liked to go in on allied landings, and very often he had the ship s barber or the military barber give him a crew cut. of course, back at headquarters he got teased by the headquarters staff, and in fact, wallace duel, on his personal staff said, hey, that s some haircut you got there, mister. he loved it. he got the haircuts because he was in the field a lot making a lot of military landings. the book wild bill donovan is three stories. it s a biography of a truly heroic figure who suffered a lot of personal tragedy in his life. it s a spy story with a lot of accounts of very daring operations they conducted, and as peter mentioned, it s also a story of political intrigue at the highest levels of government in washington and also overseas. that s the part that interested me the most. the personal story on donovan, it s
douglas waller, former correspondent for time and newsweek magazine recounts the life of william wild bill donovan, often thought of as the father of the cia. examines the office of strategic services and his thoughts on the use of counterintelligence. this lasts about an hour. i am glad that they have the photo of donovan up here. this is really kind of an iconic portrait shot. you will see that when you get to the oss society meetings, and this is the one commonly the most commonly a identified. actually, there is a funny story behind it. you will notice that his hair is cut short here. actually, he has a crew cut. he was out in the field most of the time when he was running the zero ss pretty like to go in on allied landings. very often he would have the ships barbara or the military part give him a crewcut before he went out. of course when he got back to headquarters he would get teased by the headquarters staff. in fact, wallace bull, he would pop his head in an
either brilliant and you ve thought of soething that nobody else could think of or you re a fool and wasting your time because there s no story. in the end, when did you start to see a story that had never been told? well, i started going down, brian, to hyde park, tothe roosevelt archives. i stared virtually from ground zero. as i srted through papers of george marshall d bill donovan and f.d.r. s paper, i realizized there was a lot of untold stories. let s pick one of those names, bill donovan. who was he? bill donovan was an authentic hero of world war i, a congressional medal of honor winner, subsequently a vastly successful wall street lawyer. now, he becomes, in effect, the first head of a central intelligence agency in the united states. franklin roosevelt appoints him in the summer of 1941 as what eventually becomes the office of strategic services. kind of a strange choice because donovan was a staunch republican, had run for governor of new york on an anti-r