Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

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

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'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.

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

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.

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