The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.