It's the old shell game.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.