You were a little reticent when we started this project. Whats your thought about all this . I dont like it. [ laughs ] full disclosure ive been trying to convince Charles Krauthammer to sit for an interview for some time. Secretary kerry on the hill today talking about. Not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the day. I suspect theres gonna be another twist here. But one where he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and influential thinker, the life of an intensely private man. Look, when i say i dont like it, im not averse to the spotlight. Im not gonna pretend somebodys on Television Every Night doesnt enjoy it. But when it comes to interior life, its not something thats very interesting to me. More disclosure Charles Krauthammer is a colleague and friend. But he only agreed to cooperate on a fox news reporting profile reluctantly as part of the Publicity Campaign for, yes, a new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir o
You were a little reticent when we started this project. Whats your thought about all this . I dont like it. [ laughs ] full disclosure ive been trying to convince Charles Krauthammer to sit for an interview for some time. Secretary kerry on the hill today talking about. Not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the day. I suspect theres gonna be another twist here. But one where he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and influential thinker, the life of an intensely private man. Look, when i say i dont like it, im not averse to the spotlight. Im not gonna pretend somebodys on Television Every Night doesnt enjoy it. But when it comes to interior life, its not something thats very interesting to me. More disclosure Charles Krauthammer is a colleague and friend. But he only agreed to cooperate on a fox news reporting profile reluctantly as part of the Publicity Campaign for, yes, a new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir o
You were a little reticent when we started this project. Whats your thought about all this . I dont like it. [ laughs ] full disclosure ive been trying to convince Charles Krauthammer to sit for an interview for some time. Secretary kerry on the hill today talking about. Not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the day. I suspect theres gonna be another twist here. But one where he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and influential thinker, the life of an intensely private man. Look, when i say i dont like it, im not averse to the spotlight. Im not gonna pretend somebodys on Television Every Night doesnt enjoy it. But when it comes to interior life, its not something thats very interesting to me. More disclosure Charles Krauthammer is a colleague and friend. But he only agreed to cooperate on a fox news reporting profile reluctantly as part of the Publicity Campaign for, yes, a new book. Things that matter is not a confessional memoir o
alter my life, except in ways which are sort of having to do with gravity. i m not gonna defy gravity. and i m not gonna walk, i m not gonna water ski again. that s fine. so that you know. but on the big things in life, the direction of my life, what i was gonna do, that wouldn t change at all. krauthammer says he never entertained the notion that one day, whether through his own effort or even some medical miracle, he d regain full use of his arms and legs. he resigned himself to the cold reality that wherever he went in life, he d go in a wheelchair. was it hard? i think the physical part was hard, getting learning to do everything again. i have a great capacity for erasing memories. [ chuckles ] so it seems very short. it was long, but it would seem very short. his teachers and classmates certainly thought he was rushing his decision to resume his studies immediately. you never thought about taking a
as the saying goes, he wrote about what he knew. his first article, the expanding shrink, protested how psychoanalysis was creeping into political discourse. for example, president carter s famous malaise speech that blamed the horrible economy on americans crisis of confidence. they liked it and they published it, and i got lucky again. it was republished on the op-ed page of the washington post. it was the first time any article in the new republic had been picked up by the post. krauthammer wrote a few more pieces for the magazine and might have joined the staff, except he got an even more intriguing offer as a speech writer for vice president walter mondale. that lasted six months. and when we got totally crushed in the general election, i got a call from the new republic, and they said, we think you re unemployed now. would you like to come work for us? i said yes right away and started on the day reagan was sworn in. that s the first day i started at the new republic