I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.