Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.