Ive been american since the day i was born in new york city and my father was quite conscious of how when he came to america, and brought me to a world which is this open, and in many ways the secular, the risk of me not following his way of life, and he had tremendous equanimity about that. Charles really did not like to talk about himself and one of the most rewarding experiences i had here at fox is finally convincing him to open up in a d the release of his new book a few years ago, things that matter. We spoke for hours. It was his life and his words and i asked him what do you think about this project and he said i dont like it. I need to write my fathers story before i pass on because there is no one who will rumor the story except me. Its the story of the 20th century. He was born in 1903, died in 1987. By the end of his life, he spoke nine languages, not because he was a great scholar, but because he lived in a lot of places and not always moving willingly. Whenever he needed
will work. it s my job to call a folly of folly. whether it straightens them out, i don t know. i don t know whether it s going to have an effect on them but there is no other way for an honest credit to be other than to be honest and to be critical. whether it s going to have the effect, i don t know. there s a great line by tom stockert who once said, about his own life as a writer and what he tried to do, he said you spend your life writing and every once in a while, you can put words together all your life and every once in a while, you get them in the right order and you give the world a nudge. so i just hope i get the words in the right order every once in a while and give the world a nudge. that s the most i can hope for but it s what i exist to do, really. charles and i used to talk about whether there is a lasting impact of journalism.