Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.