There is no delete button for bigotry.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.