was dead. what is it about the newsrooms about that era that we should be learning from at this point in our history? let me first say something about this book, chasing history, because it s really about this kid, me, who got the best seat in the country at age 16. i went to work as a copy boy at the washington evening star, the greatest afternoon paper in america at the time, the opposition better and a better paper than the washington post in those days. what this memoir is about is this five years from 1960 to 65 when huge events are happening in the nation, not just the inauguration and the election of kennedy, his assassination, which i ll talk about in a second, the civil rights movement, the passage of the voting rights act. i was able to cover as a 19-year-old kid. and think of what s happening right now in the congress of the united states, to strip away