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Tell your doctor about all your medical conditions, including immune system problems, or if youve had an organ transplant, or lung, breathing, or liver problems. A chance to live longer. Ask your doctor if opdivo is right for you. Bristolmyers squibb thanks the patients and physicians who participated in the opdivo Clinical Trial. Steve kroft morley safer has worked in Television News for 61 years. Hes spent 46 of those years on this broadcast, longer than anyone else. As a traveler, he holds some sort of record, taking planes, trains, boats, even bicycles to the ends of the earth, often visiting more than once. By the time he was 35, hed covered news in europe, the middle east, africa and southeast asia. Its fair to say that nobody alive today has seen as much and reported on it as brilliantly as morley. Hes retiring now. And no one here is happy about it. Simply by example, hes made the rest of us better journalists. His writing is the best in the business. His toughness and kindness and sense of humor are legendary. Youll see why in this hour. Morley safer this is morley safer reporting. This is morley safer. Kroft when he first spoke those words on television, Dwight Eisenhower was president. Safer it all began when an officer kroft morley and Television News grew up together. Safer the question remains are the American People prepared to lose more and more young men in vietnam . The revolution, the original chinese revolution. Kroft across the continents and across the years, he covered a huge range of stories. Safer last night kroft for some, his slightly oldfashioned name took some getting used to. Walter cronkite ok. Whats his name . Morley safer. Right. Got it. Safer my name is morley safer. Kroft but eventually safer im morley safer. Kroft it became a household name. Safer im morley safer. Im morley safer. Im morley safer. Morley safer . Safer yes, himself. How are you . Safer very well. Hi, morley. Ms. Piggy hi, morley. How are you . Kroft everybody wanted to meet morley. Well almost everybody. Safer in a sense, what youre saying is that kroft in a business thats fastmoving and sometimes cutthroat, he survived and prospered. Either outworking, outfoxing, or outliving everyone else. And always. Safer did you murder those patients . No kroft trying to get to the bottom of things. Safer what goes through your mind . Are these companies ashamed . What do they do down there . They really go after you. Admit it. Youve got a temper. How did we get in this fix . All right. Kroft like all of us, hes got his contradictions. He swears in all seriousness that looking into the camera lens, as hes done for six decades, is not his thing. Safer i really dont like being on television. I find it intimidating, discomforting. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. Kroft contradiction number two. Though morley is impeccable in dress, manner and thought, his office has always been a shambles. Visitors are shocked to see it. An avalanche of books, on art, on history. Old newspapers. Old scripts. Remembrances of stories past. The cleaning crews were often horrified. Jeff fager they found a piece of cake behind his desk from like 20 years ago, and a couple of dead mice. laughs kroft jeff fager is the boss at 60 minutes. He and the rest of us spent many hours in that splendid mess, listening to morley hold court. Fager he loves being a reporter. He has always loved being a reporter. You get that when youre around him. It rubs off on you. Kroft from the beginning, morley went to great lengths, literally, to find an offbeat story. Safer here we are on board the good ship dandahayloo, bound from mali to furudu. Kroft there he is, 37 years ago, sailing the indian ocean to a tiny island called furudu, having the time of his life. Safer it is on rare days like this that you must ask do they really pay me to do this. Yes. Kroft it turned out there wasnt much happening in furudu. But it really didnt matter. The story was just getting there. Kroft and there he is three years ago, out in the middle of nowhere again a tiny town called marfa, in west texas cattle country. A place where cowboys live in peace and harmony with artists and hipsters. Buck johnston i mean, its nutty. Its just this cultural little hub in the middle of nowhere. We think its the best small town in america. Fager morleys stories were always an adventure. And sometimes into places that people couldnt imagine going. Kroft in 1977, viewers traveled with him on the fabled orient express. Paris to istanbul. He found out that somewhere along the way, the trains romantic reputation had gone off the tracks. Safer the train that once carried only first class passengers now is made up almost entirely of second class carriages, carrying turkish Migrant Workers home. Tom brokaw hes such a natural. Hes so good at it. When you watch him, youre just pulled in. Kroft morleys friend, tom brokaw of nbc, thinks theres a key element to his success. Brokaw you have to be who you are. He did not take himself so seriously that he seemed like some kind of a phony. When he was on television, he was morley safer. And his interests and his intellect and his humor all came through. And people saw that. Kroft especially the humor. Morley likes to laugh. And america laughed with him. Heel. Kroft he profiled barbara woodhouse, the famous and slightly dotty british dog trainer. Barbara woodhouse left hand in front, mrs. Field. Safer she had the voice of an angry regimental sergeant major. Halt mary she would say its time for walkies woodhouse walkies walkies safer the dogs would just snap to attention. Woodhouse that was excellent. Ms. Piggy is your wife here . Safer no, shes not. Ms. Piggy great. Kroft interviewing the muppets, he was hit on by that femme fatale, miss piggy. Ms. Piggy morley, could i see you later . Thank you. Safer i must say, shes a fascinating woman. She can be very, very aggressive but very sexy at the same time. Ms. Piggy i thought 60 minutes was a high class show. Kroft morley was at his best working with producer john tiffin. Two politically incorrect guys who loved doing wild and crazy stories. In 1993, they went to a tango club in finland, of all places. Wondering how did such a hot blooded dance wind up in such a coldblooded place . Safer the finnish tango is not to be confused with the groingrinding, passionate latin american version. The finns have managed to neutralize all that. Its a sad shuffle in a minor key, with lyrics to reaffirm a couples instinctive sense of hopelessness. Fager humors one of the hardest things to do on television. But in a subtle way, morley accomplished it on a regular basis. Safer could it be that the true secret of happiness is a swift kick in the pants . And not only that. Kroft hes always had humor. Authenticity. And a sharp eye for the absurd. Safer to an outsider, these shows are another planet part dazzling part rocky horror show. Models who seem as angry as they are emaciated, wearing clothes fit for a cadaver. Kroft but morley insists theres one element above all thats crucial for great television. Safer what youre aiming at are peoples ears more than their eyes. The impact is what youre saying, not so much what theyre seeing. Kroft in other words, the writing. Up until fairly recently he did it the oldfashioned way, on a royal instead of an apple. Turning out scripts that were rich in elegance and insight. Safer he stares down from the podium like some Benevolent Bird of prey. Eyes staring past that great beak. Kroft his writing is very much like music. Whether hes profiling a man of music, conductor Michael Tilson thomas. Or a man of the cloth. Safer Timothy Dolan is hard to miss. This burly, overweight, cherubic irishamerican charges through life like a holy bulldozer. Timothy dolan where you been . Safer and always ready to refuel. Dolan stick around. Give me a cold beer. laughs kroft or writing about a great name from history. Safer in the french countryside he loved, on the very edge of the wheat fields he painted so vividly, here lies vincent van gogh. David mccullough he knows how to make every sentence count without being pretentious. Or showing off. Kroft historian David Mccullough is another typewriter man who knows a thing or two about writing. And hes a big fan of morleys. Safer this is where she grew up southwest d. C. , guns made the music of the street, drugs were the currency, and the violence was not operatic. Mccullough his narration, his story gave to whatever the camera was showing a depth and a human value that it wouldnt have had if anybody else had been doing it. Safer in your most idle moment are you hearing music . Its a 24hour radio. This ought to be some fun to drive. Kroft when he was off the clock, morley liked the feel of fast cars, especially his ferrari, and was still leaning on the pedal well into middle age. And he was game for other manly pursuits. Kroft one of his most famous profiles was with Television Legend jackie gleason. Jackie gleason and away we go safer the producer of that piece, alan weisman, did something absolutely brilliant. We did it in a bar. Gleason now rack them up. Kroft gleason had played the legendary pool shark minnesota fats in the movie the hustler. And he knew his way around the table. Morley figured he would get creamed. But. Safer i suddenly was hitting these brilliant shots. Fager he was on fire during that shoot. He almost ran the table. Gleason hey, hey kroft but gleason rallied and won. Gleason you like that one pal . Safer please. Kroft though soso at pool, hes really good at cards. Profiling sam simon, one of the creators of the simpsons t. V. Show, morley made a little money in a hollywood poker game. Little did the others know that when he worked for cbs in london, he bought himself a bentley with his poker winnings. Tom brokaw poker players are tough. And theres no sentimentality about it. And when i heard that morley was a very good poker player, that said to me, this guys a tough guy. Kroft and when it was called for, he could do a tough interview. Asking alec baldwin, the actor, about the infamous Voicemail Message he left for his young daughter. Baldwin phone call i dont give a damn that youre 12 years old or 11 years old or that youre a child or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass. Safer how could you do that . Alec baldwin you get so frustrated. And you realize, number one and its wrong, its totally wrong that i was really speaking to somebody else when i left that message. Safer but you werent talking to another person. You were talking to your daughter, to a kid, and you said you thoughtless little pig. I mean, i find it hard to utter the words. Baldwin did you ever lose your temper with your kids . Safer yeah. But nothing like that. Baldwin if youre asking me do i feel bad about leaving that message, i think that goes without saying. At the same time, im pretty overwhelmed by the sanctimoniousness of people who seem as learned and sober and together as you are who all said to me, man, im glad they didnt tape some of the things i said to my kids. Safer you feel the shame . Ruth madoff of course i feel the shame. Kroft ruth madoff. The wife of wall street scam artist bernie madoff, who cheated his clients out of billions of dollars. Safer its a tough name to live with. Madoff it sure is. Fager and he was very respectful, but he was tough. It was morleys human side. Hes asking a question on behalf of all of us. Safer its really hard for people to believe that you didnt know, that you must have known. Madoff i cant explain it. I mean, i trusted him. Why would i ever think that there was something sinister going on . Kroft its worth noting how many of morleys best interviews were with women. Meryl streep oh, this is my High School Yearbook picture. Oh god. Kroft he simply found them more open in conversation than men. Meryl streep. Safer she was fascinated by the classics. Streep and i loved Carole Lombard and i loved kate hepburn and bette davis. And barbara stanwyck. I like girls with attitude. You know . Moxie. Theres an old word. Safer do you feel like a legend . Katherine hepburn i dont think you feel like anything you feel like a bore. Kroft he had interviewed Katharine Hepburn 32 years earlier. Talk about moxie. Safer if you hadnt been an actress what would you have been . Hepburn ive never thought. I would have tormented some man i suppose and had about eight children and tormented them. Safer hepburn scared the hell out of me. Hepburn what the hell is it . Safer a granite woman hepburn bunk safer in her opinions and her character. Kroft there was anna wintour, editor of vogue magazine. The fashion arbiter with a reputation as fearsome as hepburns. Safer the blurb on your unauthorized biography reads shes a perfectionist. An inside look at the competitive bitcheatbitch world of fashion. Anna wintour a bitch . Perfectionist . Perfectionist. Well lets try bitch first. Dolly parton you want me to ask me to sing it or you want me to just wup it out for you . Safer just wup it out for me. Kroft dolly parton. She and morley got along famously, to say the least. She wrote a song called dumb blonde, which people in the music world found she definitely was not. Parton you know i look like a woman but i think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that i dont know whats going on, i done got the money and gone. Betty ford i dont feel unliberated when im sitting here talking to you. Kroft he interviewed first lady betty ford. Ford didnt the fact that i had the cancer operation and the publicity of that save a lot of peoples lives . Brokaw when he talked to accomplished women, he wasnt patronizing in any way. Here was a gentleman who appreciated their gifts and put them at ease. Helen mirren morley, could you . Safer of course. Fager helen mirren fell in love with him. And i think he might have fallen in love with her. laughs kroft a veteran of movie nude scenes, mirren suggested to morley lets get naked. Mirren you should try it. Safer well, no. Mirren yes, i think we should do this interview both of us in the nude. You would love it. Go on. Safer well, what the hell. Kroft their encounter had a hollywood ending. Safer we both looked over and saw this ridiculously beautiful sunset. And just instinctively held hands and walked into the sunset. Kroft morleys curiosity, a key element in journalism, included a fascination with how things work. Safer were looking at the future. Colin guinn and then i can spin around us. Safer and whether we like it or not, the future is looking back at us. Kroft hes always been up for a story about a new gadget or a backstage look at how familiar things are produced. He went to the philadelphia mint to see, literally, how money is made. Edmund moy were making a couple million pennies a day. Kroft he went to hollywood to watch director James Cameron put the finishing touches on his blockbuster avatar. James cameron were going to have to push that smoke element back. Flavorist this is a home run. Kroft and he spent time with the flavorists. Flavorist strawberry creations. This is a chicken flavor. Kroft people who put together chemicals that taste like real food. This is the chicken in the hose. Safer chicken in the hose . And it comes out in a dry cake form. Safer chicken just like grandma used to make. What is growing here . Kroft he kept up with new discoveries in science. This is actually an ear mold. Kroft marveling at one of its latest miracles an artificial heart valve, grown in the lab from human cells. Safer its beating kroft marveling as well at a young scientific genius. Safer this is jack andraka, age 15, as he beats out 1,500 contestants and wins a 100,000 prize with his invention. A test for pancreatic cancer that could save lives. Kroft another life saver forrest bird, inventor of the modern medical respirator. In the tradition of Great American tinkerers, he made his prototypes from scratch. Forrest bird i went to the Hardware Store and got a doorknob. You can see this doorknob right here at the top. Kroft morley found bird so fascinating he started talking only half jokingly about doing a series of reports titled geezers you should know. Marty cooper i said, joel, this is marty cooper. Kroft for geezer number two he chose marty cooper, the man widely considered the father of the cell phone, here recreating the first call he made years ago on his little phone, as he put it. Safer little phone . What are you talking about . Little phone. Cooper well, relatively small. I mean, after all, it only weighed 2. 5 pounds. Colin guinn let it just, let it keeping going. Kroft and he made an historic find of his own. Safer on our sunday in the park with drones, we discovered that man never needs to exercise the dog agai