I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.