Dug brinkley tell me about ann brinkley your mother. She meant everything to me, died a few years back of a massive heart attack and she told me she was oldschool czechoslovakian she would say, youre going to miss me when im dead, and im like a lot of kids like yeah, okay, and boy have i missed her, just a hole in my life because she was a real believer in education. She grew up very poor in new jersey, i mean dirt poor, and she worked at a Howard Johnsons waiting tables and got money to then go to clarians teachers college, today clarian State College in western pennsylvania and wanted, had gotten into carnegie but didnt have the money to go, at any rate, became a teacher and was a deeply driven person and kind of had an immigrants view of a love of america and that her kids were going to go anywhere so my whole life growing up was my mom telling me you could be president some day, go eat with the queen of england so always pushing manners and politeness, taught literature but her gre
mother married him he married my mother, or my mother married him. but i was four. he played a big role in my life. he died when i was 37. very sad. but he was an amazing, remarkable man. he did everything. just everything. brian: someone who has never heard of him, what did he do? tyler: he was a remarkable journalist. he invented the washington, d.c., column, which is now occupied by i don t know how many people. and he wrote a column unlike men and he wrote a column, unlike men today or women today, seven days a week, every day of the year. he wrote a column. mostly about washington, but all kinds of things. he flew around the world. started out as a young man interviewing europe s 12 greatest men. that is how he actually started and made a name for himself. brian: where was he from originally? tyler: he was born in evanston, illinois. his father was a professor in english at northwestern. and his dad got a job at swarthmore college in pennsylvania. ien drew was about
he wasn t always right. in fact, he predicted that dewey would win in 1948. but he was right about world war iii. and he talked a lot about that later on in the book, the drew pearson diaries. it covers 1960 to 1969. several places in there, he talks about the danger of war and how the russians he doesn t think the russians really want war. he interviewed the biggest russian leader of that era several times, khrushchev. khrushchev works into his thoughts and dealings with the russians frequently. brian: there is a lot i want to just lay down some of the things he did and tell me if any of this is right or wrong. first to report of general patton slapping the soldier. tyler: 1943. brian: general douglas macarthur sued him for defamation, but pearson threatened to publish his letters from his mistress. tyler: yes. and macarthur backed off. in fact, those letters are still around. i got a call about them several years ago from a guy who just researched them because he was
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i think i am speaking for a lot of people when we say we are heartbroken when a family member is taken through an act of gun violence, whether it be a child or anyone else, but particularly children. that is a heartbreaking episode in society. i think most people would appreciate the fact that there are thousands, if not millions of americans, that save their families from home invasions or violent assault because they had a gun to protect themselves. most of us are glad it ended well for you. those are the two bookends. you mentioned, captain kelly, and i appreciate you being here, appreciate your comments about you and your wife being reasonable people. i do not doubt that one bit. the question is, am i an unreasonable american if i oppose this bill? am i an unreasonable american to believe the constitution says guns commonly used by the population for legitimate purposes? i do not want to own a gun to attack my government. that is not what i think a legitimate purpose is.