Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, `Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, `This is interesting.'

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.