he quite simply willed himself omto accomplish things that most people would see as impossible. that was a great lesson of his example. to build the life that you want, that you intend. don t be defined by what life throws at you, and youth cannot control. except to the hand you are dealt with grace, and then go on to play that hand as joyously and industriously, and vigorously as you can. bret: like his father, daniel attended harvard and oxford, and stanford too. he has work to stands in hollywood, silicon valley, and government, but putting his life on hold to care for his dad finished the book and launch a website, charleskrauthammer.com to advance charlespr legacy. is so many of his greatest qualities, it was the simplicite that was his greatest gift. his love was full, unadulterated, unconditional,
liberalism as it not nearly that dangerous, but having those same seeds of being a little too utopian. he feared that whatever good intentions you could have a state that grew and squashed the individual. that s what he wanted to avoid. bret: he wrote that the founding of the united states was a miracle. every fourth of july. we would have a big fourth of july party at our summer house on the chesapeake bay. we would do all the hot dogs and crab cakes and fireworks, and all that. but the centerpiece of the entire event was a group reading of the declaration of the american independence. it was always extraordinarily moving event. you think that it could be cheesy or hokey, but you read those words and to understand that two men were putting their lives on this. he saw his role largely as a reminding us that it does not just stickho around inevitably,t has to be guarded and it has to be passed down by generation.ss
him and so important to him. we did not use electrical devices on the sabbath. as a result, when we sat down to the last sabbath meal towards the end of the day, we relied for illumination on light from the windows. as the day waned, the light began to die, and when it came for the hebrew recitation, three times of the 23rd psalm, there was so little light that i can no longer read. to this day whenever i hear the 23rd psalm, i am filled with the most profound memories of father and family, of tranquility and grace in gentle gathering darkness. bret: as his son, how would you describe his relationship with god? his sense of god was kind of the grandest possible sense of it as removed from a personal god who knows you and me and involves himself in our lives, but he got there both through the abstract thought and beauty
me. he was also insistent that i learned how to ski. we went on ski vacations all the time when i was growing up. and he would, you know, he would have the hot chocolate at the bottom of the hill, but be watching and making sure that i was learning all the right moves and the hockey stuff. he wanted me to ski elegantly, not just recklessly. how do you like that? bret: for someone with your level of paralysis, you are able to do a lot. your car is not exactly an off the road vehicle. usually the first is 20 minutes of sheer terror, i cannot believe that this thing is going to work and we will go. and i intend it to go. and it has the ejection seat. that s what that red one is. bret: [laughs] when i got in that thing it was like, don t touch anything. to the radio is fine, and the air conditioning is great. i grew up there, yes, it was kind of cool. there were all of these buttons on the dashboard, but in terms
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