I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

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.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

Get the hell out of Palestine.

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.