If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.