Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

Hollywood was never great for children.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.